Nour Al Ghraowi is a Syrian writer, activist, and educator. She has received an MFA in poetry at Texas State University. Her poetry and essay have appeared in Dame Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Mizna Literary Journal, Porter House Review and others. Nour writes about social justice, migrant identity, and what it means to be an immigrant in a place far from home, and finally she writes about feminism and what it means to be a feminist Middle Eastern woman.
Lajee Palestinian Dabka Dance Troupe / Photo by Tim Dennell / Flickr
I ask the olives to be gentle
for they’re weighing the branches down
as heavy as the stories Um Muhammad
carries on her tired s…