Rafeef Ziadah

“wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp
and hold every child,
cover their ears
so they wouldn’t have to hear the sound of bombing
for the rest of their life the way I do..”
― Rafeef Ziadah

“All my grandfather ever wanted to do
was wake up at dawn and watch my grandmother kneel and pray
in a village hidden between Jaffa and Haifa
my mother was born under an olive tree
on a soil they say is no longer mine
but I will cross their barriers, their check points
their damn apartheid walls and return to my homeland
I am an Arab woman of color and we come in all shades of anger”
― Rafeef Ziadah