David Naimon
speaker
4,074 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
David Naimon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
The National Book Award, long listed novel in verse, Home is Not a Country, and the Coming of Age novel inverse Bright Red Fruit.
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Aracelis Germai says of girls that never die, quote No.
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Safia Elhilo traces the ongoing devastations of patriarchy while simultaneously making a refuge out of language, kinship, and sound.
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Electric, violet, plural with girls.
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This work pulses with memory and refusal, awakening language with its lucid imagination.
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Girls that never die is a book of resuscitations, brilliant and fierce.
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Here's the question for you from Safi.
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Well, Safia mentions the Glissant epigraph, but also one epigraph by Yassin Aref, and that one goes, Our enemies say that the Kurds have lived on the mountains for so long, they have rocks in their heads and have become rebellious like wild animals.
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I didn't know who this was, so I went looking for him and found and watched a documentary on
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Him called Witness, and that documentary opens with George Bush Sr.
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calling for an uprising against Saddam, which some Kurds responded to, including Yassin, who expects quite reasonably, I think, for the cover and support of the United States because of it.
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But instead, Saddam destroys his village.
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Most Kurds in the air.
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Area flee because they participated in the uprising.
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He goes from Iraq to Syria as a refugee.
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And then in 1999, he and his wife and three children emigrate to the US again as refugees, to Albany, New York, where he and another person, a pizza maker who started a community mosque, are then accused of being terrorists.
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The movie details this accusation, which seems entirely to murd emerge from entrapment.
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But the premise of this whole investigation in the first place is them finding his name in a notebook in Iraq amidst a group of so-called insurgents.
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And the US claims that Araf is called commander in Arabic in this notebook.
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And it's only two years later that they realize that the word is not Arabic, but the Kurdish word
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