Meet the Team

Israa Merhi is a Muslim writer, spoken-word performer, and Grand Slam finalist for three consecutive years. She is also an editor and student. She writes about the search for love from the perspective of a hopeless romantic and the challenges of mental health. Israa is expanding her focus on what she writes about in her poetry and other forms of literature to include what it is like being Muslim not to dismantle Western narratives, but to show the world that those narratives have no legitimacy. She aims to build on the notion that these narratives are a product of colonisation and imperialism. Israa also believes in a free Palestine from the river to the sea, and land back to all Indigenous nations worldwide by all means.