MAYSAM ABU KHREIBEH

iAM POETRY 2020

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Maysam is a Muslim settler with Palestinian and Syrian roots, dwelling on the unceded lands of Turtle Island. She is a 4th year Global Development Studies and Concurrent Education major, with specializations in First Nations, Metis and Inuit studies, and History at Queen’s University. Maysam is dedicated to decolonial social justice movements, and often explores these politics in her writing. She writes poetry that explores questions of home, faith, displacement and healing through her familial and ancestral connections. She has poems published in the forthcoming academic journal New Sociology, in addition to the Queen’s Journal of Indigenous Studies, Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship Anthology and Collective Reflections. She was a featured poet at the Canadian Spoken Word Festival in 2019, and she has performed her poetry in two productions of Down There. Catch her reciting poems at your local Palestine solidarity action.

Although she tries to stay lowkey on the internet, you can connect with her on instagram. i: @maysamghani