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Omar Offendum: Neo-Hakawati Nights

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Performance Middle East Performance Poetry

Thu, Apr 2, 2026

7:30 PM – 9 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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As part of MENA Heritage Month, the Middle Eastern and North Cultural Community is inviting Omar Offendum, acclaimed musician and poet, to perform and speak at Yale University on Thursday, April 2nd. The show is titled Neo Hakawati Nights: An Evening of Poetry and Music, and it will feature multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil. It is a live performance that incorporates spoken word poetry and music, and it draws on the Arab hakawati tradition (storytelling) to explore themes of identity.

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