Amanee Izhaq

Amanee Izhaq is an award–winning Palestinian–American poet and producer through Be Still Media Foundation. Her work has been featured in the United Nations, Falastin Literary Magazine, Palestine Festival of Literature, Los Angeles Poet Society Press, LA This Week, KPFK 90.7 FM, LA River Arts, and more. She has taught and performed across the US  alongside poet laureates. Her writing is influenced by hakawati, the ancient Arab art of storytelling, given that her great-grandfather Khaleel was the village hakawati of his time.