samar-almont
Malaysia
I'm a Yemeni - an Arab - a Muslim - Struggling to create a life by patching up the bits and pieces of me from the many countries I grew up in. / / I come from a non-educated family background, my mother was married at 16 and wasn't educated, neither were her sisters allowed to go to school. Since it was difficult communicating with my parents or relatives about my experiences, i wrote to myself. / / The need to write had much to do with my internal struggle of how I was brought up and how I needed to change that, and it wasn't easy. / / I never realised my writing was of worth, until my professor did 3 years ago. Since then I stopped throwing away the pieces I wrote, now I have close to 200 poems. I've compiled them, but never published as there is no english reading community where i live, so I decided to engage in this community.
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