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We’re delighted to invite you to an internal event for staff and students with Palestinian poet, academic and human rights activist Dr Rafeef Ziadah.
Rafeef will lead a poetry reading and workshop session structured around live readings of her critically acclaimed poems, followed by break-out discussions and writing sessions for those who feel inspired to write their own lines of poetry. Rafeef will share how she came to poetry through multiple exiles and work with refugees and asylum seekers in several countries. The workshop will explore the link between conflict, poetry and gender.
Rafeef Ziadah is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at SOAS. Her research interests are broadly concerned with the political economy of war and humanitarianism, racism and the security state, with a particular focus on the Middle East. She has worked with a number of grassroots Palestinian, refugee rights and anti-poverty campaigns. She recently co-edited a book Revolutionary Feminisms, published in 2020, featuring interviews with key revolutionary scholars discussing how anti-racist, anti-capitalist feminisms are crucial to building effective political coalitions.
Rafeef’s poetry has received critical acclaim, with her most famous poems ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ going viral within days of release. Her live readings offer a moving blend of poetry and music. Since releasing her first album, Rafeef has headlined prestigious performance venues across several countries with powerful readings on war, exile, gender and racism.