Five poems written by Mohamed Assaf (a young Syrian boy who currently
lives in Oxford with his family and studies at Oxford Spires Academy) under the mentorship
of the poet Kate Clanchy. The introduction and poems themselves offer a reflection
on Mohamed’s old and new place(s) in the world, and the significance of writing as
a way of responding to, and resisting, “refugeedom.”
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