Ink and Resistance

Abstract

Ayah Altahouni’s piece explores the role of writing for communities in exile. She imagines a fictional conversation between an exiled Palestinian student and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Set in Paris in 1988, this text examines how writers and poets can preserve cultures and identities facing diaspora and war. This piece was written in WRS 101 for an assignment that asked students to imagine a conversation with a famous writer.