I dip in and out of writing. Something is simmering beneath the surface. Three women, memories of three lives, each carrying some elements of me inside her. I connect to them, get lost in their lives, I confuse them, then try to separate them back and mould them into three independent characters. I try to create something solid for them, some foundation from which they can at last take off and lead me into their very desires. They are born of me, out of my own pain, desires, memories, the stories my soul collects, but then the time comes to release them and let them build their own lives.
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a Palestinian feminist writer, born to a Slovak mother and a Palestinian father. Growing up in two countries and between two cultures, my identity is composed of both, and my multicultural background affects my writing. I write fiction, poetry and non-fiction fragments. My first novel, “Haifa Fragments,” was published in 2015 by Spinifex Press (Australia), New Internationalist (UK), and translated into Italian and Turkish. I hold a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Haifa. In my fiction, poetry, as well as non-fiction, I deal with political and social issues such as identity, belonging, racism and discrimination, art as political resistance, hard-core social taboos in the Palestinian society, and issues affecting women and the LGBTQI community, all from a feminist perspective. I’m a member of the radical feminist collective Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center, and live with my daughter in Haifa.
website: khuludkhamis.com
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Haifa Fieldnotes wrote:
> khulud khamis posted: “I dip in and out of writing. Something is simmering > beneath the surface. Three women, memories of three lives, each carrying > some elements of me inside her. I connect to them, get lost in their lives, > I confuse them, then try to separate them back and mou” >
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Yes: women characters who aren’t ourselves but who have come from ourselves … the organised science graduate, ambitious and sometimes impatient, curious about the world … Jenny. Her stepsister Daze, artist, cynic, creative …
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