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Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian performance poet and human rights activist based in London. Her performances of poems like ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ went viral online within days of their release.
She received an Ontario Arts Council Grant from the Word of Mouth programme to create her debut spoken-word album Hadeel. Since releasing her album, she has toured many countries, performing poetry and conducting workshops. She was chosen to represent Palestine at the South Bank center Poets Olympiad in 2012.

Although Ziadah began writing at a very early age, her first public performance was not until 2004, while studying at York University. Since her poetic debut, she has done much over the past decade to raise awareness of Palestinian suffering, both the oppression within Palestine as well as Palestinian displacement across the globe.

Ziadah was born in Beirut, a third generation refugee. Some of her first childhood memories were of the 1982 siege and bombing of Beirut.

As an active member of the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Ziadah’s prim

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Rafeef Ziadah

Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought
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Apartheid in Palestine: Hard Laws and Harder Experiences
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Hadeel

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Poesía Palestina
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Not Quite Right For Us
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Poesía Palestina: Mujeres poetas
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Mi dulce olivo
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Mi dulce olivo
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Feminismes revolucionaris
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Palestine: Imperialism, Fossil Capitalism and Race
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Rafeef Ziadah

Palestinian poet

Rafeef Ziadah (Arabic: رفيف زيادة) (born 1979 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Palestinian-Canadian^[1] poet and human rights activist who currently lives in London. She released the spoken word album, Hadeel.

Biography

Ziadah was born in Beirut, Lebanon to Palestinian refugee parents^[2] and began writing at a young age.^[3] She grew up in Tunisia.^[2] She attended York University in Toronto.^[3] In 2004, she gave her first public performance after she was motivated by her experience of racism to write a poem.^[3]

In 2009 Ziadah released her first spoken word album, Hadeel.^[4] Ziadah produced Hadeel with a grant from the Ontario Arts Council within their Word of Mouth program in 2008.^[5] Ziadah has traveled to countries all over the world to perform and conduct poetry workshops.^[4] In 2011, Ziadah performed with Palestinian-American poet, Remi Kanazi in London, UK as part of the tour for his book, Poetic Injustice.^[6] In 2012, Ziadah was