Titled “Kan Yama Kan,” which means “once upon a time” in Arabic, the event welcomes aspiring and established writers and poets to share their work openly in front of others.
Though not exclusive, the crowd typically attracts Palestinian, Arab and Muslim writers who have found a community of words and a shared struggle of identity.
Many are new to the genre and are overcoming fears about sharing their work in public — especially in a city with a complicated relationship toward Israel and Palestine The proceeds from the last event will go to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, they said. The non-profit was created by “concerned humanitarians in the USA” in the 90s, with the goal of providing medical care for children in Palestine in their local hospitals, according to the website.
She lived in Kuwait in her early years, and at four years old, Alyan and her family sought political asylum in the U.S. after Iraq’s Saddam Hussein invaded the country, prompting the Gulf War in 1990. “It probably began as sort of a form of escapism,” Alyan said. “I wrote these characters who I think had a lot of autonomy and a lot of agency in their life … which is probably symptomatic of a little girl who did not feel like she had any control.”
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