Rafeef ziadah bio
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Biography
Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian activist, academic and spoken word artist. She is currently a Phd. candidate in Political Science at York University in Toronto. She released her spoken word CD Hadeel in Novermber She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) promoting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestement and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in Canada, and an organizer of the international Israeli Apartheid Week.
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Rafeef Ziadah
Palestinian poet
Rafeef Ziadah (Arabic: رفيف زيادة) (born 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
[edit]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 , she gave her first public performance after she was motivated by her experience of racism to write a poem.[3]
In 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 [5] Ziadah has traveled to countries all over the world to perform and conduct poetry workshops.[4] In , Ziadah performed with Palestinian-American poet, Remi Kanazi in London, UK as part of the tour for his book, Poetic Injustice.[6] In , Ziadah was chosen to represent Palestine at the South Bank Center Poets Olympiad.[4] In the same year, she performed at the World Village Festival in Helsinki.[7] During the summer of , Ziadah contributed an opinion pi
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