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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. \\u201cI\\u2019m this and that\\u201d she said.

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\\u201cMy Identity Has Nothing to do with the Language in which I Write.\\u201d Tel Aviv Review of Books

Poems: Poetry International Rotterdam