About

I am a writer, poetry therapy practitioner, and literature student, born to a Swiss mother and Palestinian father, raised in Switzerland, and based in Ireland for the past eleven years. My writing moves between personal essays and literary research, exploring everything from the extraordinary hidden in the everyday to ideas that help us make sense of the world around us.

Publications & Projects

The Ordinary Elsewhere is a weekly Substack publication where I write about life and the world. My essays reflect on places, encounters, identity, and belonging, connecting personal experience with wider social and cultural questions.

Words Unbowed is a weekly podcast exploring literature, political thought, and collective memory. Through books, it examines how literature challenges power, preserves histories, and carries voices forward.

Different in subject, both projects share the same impulse: to look more closely, to question what we are told to overlook, and to pay attention to the stories that remain.

Currently, I am working on my first essay collection, learning to trust a slower rhythm, both in writing and in how I approach it.

For the Love of Writing

Writing has been with me for as long as I can remember. It started with a diary and fairy tales. As I grew older, writing stayed close, becoming my way of making sense of the world.

I have been training as a poetry therapy practitioner and writing educator in Germany, exploring the relationship between creativity and well-being. Along the way, my relationship with writing has deepened and changed, and I have fallen in love with poetry.

Beyond my own projects, I facilitate writing and reading circles and work one-on-one with individuals using writing as a tool for self-expression, imagination, and community. These experiences have deepened my belief in the power of words, not only to help us understand ourselves, but also to create spaces where people can share stories, find their voices, and feel heard.

At the heart of my work lies the belief in writing as a companion.