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Amanda Najib is a scholar of education and a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. She is the author of Lana Makes Purple Pizza: A Palestinian Food Tale, winner of the 2024 Palestine Book Award. Her work has appeared in Educational Studies, the Arab Studies Journal, and Pedagogy, Culture & Society. During twenty months of genocide, the only solace she has found is in writing—holding onto words as a way to keep breathing, to keep remembering, to keep imagining a future that insists on life.
  • We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices

    We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices

    In “We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices,” Palestinian Feminist Collective member Amanda Najib offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine and the diaspora –– a generational struggle “to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself.”