Rania Khalil

5 Spencer Ct. apt 2c
Brooklyn NY 11205
Home/ Fax: 718.623.3399
Mobile: 718.724.4594


Poet, Performance Artist, Video Maker

Performances (Selected):
2004:
WBAI Radio: Fez Mayshoon Interview and Reading
Featured Reader: Bowery Poetry Club- Longshot Magazine’s Beat Bush
Reading; X Read Series, Patrias Gallery- Pre-Cinco de Mayo Feature
Cornelia St. Café Ziryab Arab-American Writers series Feature

2003:
The Knitting Factory – Film and Poetry Series
The Judson Church- Performance from “The Rania Khalil Show”, one woman auto-biographical show
The Bowery Poetry Club- Slam Poetry Finals
Flywheel Performance Art Space- with Palestinean Hip-Hop Group Juha, and Nomy Lamm
The Brecht Forum- Women of Color Poetry Series
Feature: Thompkins Square Park Bandshell Reading, Nyuorican Poets café

2002:
The Zebra Award Poetry Film Festival, Berlin Germany, Film- Mish Calaam –
Performances of “The Rania Khalil Show” (One Woman Show; Multi-Media):
Earthdance, Hampshire College, Flywheel Performance Space , Amherst College, New York University


Publications (Selected):

Longshot Magazine Beat Bush Issue,
New York Arts Magazine Vol. 8 no. 2,
Longshot Magazine Vol. 26, Gallatin Review Vol. 4,
Mineshaft Magazine Spring 2002,
N. Handals’ Arab- American Women Writers Anthology, Hollaback Magazine, Vol. 1,


Awards:

Threshold Grant Outstanding Contribution to the Performing Arts- “The Rania Khalil Show”
Finalist (30 selected from 600) Zebra Award Poetry Film Festival, berlin germany for film “Mish Calaam
Selected Artist for 2003 Documentary “Women Performers: from Slam to the Avant-Garde