Maysam Ghani

Maysam is a Muslim spoken-word poet with Palestinian and Syrian roots, dwelling on the unceded lands of Turtle Island. She graduated with a degree in Global Development Studies and is in her Bachelor of Education year, with specializations in First Nations, Metis and Inuit studies, and History at Queen’s University. Maysam is dedicated to anti-colonial social justice movements and often explores these politics in her writing. She writes poetry that explores questions of home, faith, displacement and healing through her familial and ancestral connections. You can find a selection of her published pieces in the forthcoming academic journal New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis (2020), in addition to the Queen’s Journal of Indigenous Studies (2019), Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship Anthology (2019) and Collective Reflections (2018). She was a featured poet at the Canadian Spoken Word Festival in 2019, and she has performed her poetry in two productions of Down There. Catch her reciting poems at your local Palestine solidarity action!

Connect with her on Instagram: @maysamghani