Please watch the Songs of my Foreign Accent by Ibtisam Barakat, and read the related below, then reflect on how the occupation and the uprooting made Ibtisam Barakat struggle to "occupy" a bright place in the world of literary language art and how displacement made her find her roots in her language.
Q&A: Palestinian-American author Ibtisam Barakat gets personal with her memoirs about growing up in political conflict
The Columbia-based international author talks about her nonfiction work and the importance of writing and studying your inner self
Alex Ransom
Vox Magazine
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