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Dunya Mikhail

Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad in 1965 to a Chaldean-Catholic family. As a child she showed an aptitude for literature, and she wrote and illustrated the bedtime fables passed down by her grandmother. In secondary

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by Dunya Mikhail (b. 1965)

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6      <lastname>Mikhail</lastname>
7    </name>
8    <life-events>
9      <date ty="birth" circa="false" suffix="ad">1965</date>
10      <text-value>(b. 1965)</text-value>
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She pressed her ear against the shell:

she wanted to hear everything

he never told her.

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