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Monday, August 28, 2017
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Maia Asshaq is an Iraqi-American writer and founder of the Detroit Art Book Fair. She is the recipient of the 2015 Gilda Award for emerging writers by the Kresge Foundation and a 2016 Salzburg Fellow.
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