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Jadal Al-qasem

Jadal Al-qasem was born in Sofia, Bulgaria to a Damascene Syrian mother and a Palestinian Jerusalemite father. She currently resides in Ramallah. She holds a graduate degree in democracy and human rights from Birzeit University and works as a researcher in the field of dignity and human rights. Her first poetry collection, Wheat in Cotton, won the 2015 Palestine Young Poet Competition from the Al-Qattan Foundation. 
 
 

Innocent Despair

When separate from you my blood will ache.An unknown part of me will acheand I’ll try to kill it. Or grab it.The cell that misses you will throb in me,and I won’t be able to spot it,it changes position often,drags out the game,hurts my senses.My eyesight will worsen,my ...