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The Poetry of Ayat Abou Shmeiss
Ayat Abou Shmeiss is an Arab-speaker who writes in Hebrew in part because she was educated in that language, and in French, at a Christian school in Jaffa, and has been writing since she was a teen.
In her second book, her subjects include an examination of her life as the mother of one child, and as a student at the Open University, where she is now finishing a degree in political science. The poet has a clear grasp of her position. “I’m this and that” she said.
Text:
“My Identity Has Nothing to do with the Language in which I Write.” Tel Aviv Review of Books
Poems: Poetry International Rotterdam