Dareen Tatour

Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet, photographer, and social media activist from Reineh, Palestine, who writes in Arabic. In 2010 she published a poetry book entitled “The Last Invasion”. And she has published her work on Facebook, and YouTube. In October 2015, Tatour published a poem on YouTube and Facebook titled “Qawem Ya Shaabi Qawemahum” (“Resist my people, resist them”),where the words were cited as the soundtrack to images of Palestinians in violent confrontations with Israeli troops. Israeli police arrested her over this poem, imprisoned her on charges of “incitement to violence,” for which she was sentenced to five months in jail and years under house arrest.