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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 Lond