Creative Writer, Educator, Herbalist
Are you ready to dive in to 4 generations of my family's (hidden) history? Fun fact: It took a global pandemic for me to finally get up the courage to heal generations of trauma through therapy & my creative writing practice. That & A LOT of public crying😬 it was absolutely worth it! Now im …
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The time has finally come to showoff my debut book's beautiful cover! Shout out to The Chicago Review of Books for featuring it ( the article is just the best!)... and of course huge shout out to my bestie Jewel for creating this masterpiece! My book will be available in September 2023 but pre-order link …
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This fall I had the opportunity to take part in an important oral history project called Rooted in Palestine, a project that seeks to educate the public on the experience and uniqueness of the Palestinian diaspora. Teta & Sido's wedding in Kuwait This opportunity came at the perfect time as I was about to publicly …
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A debut work from Palestinian American author, Nada Samih-Rotondo, All Water Has a Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers from the author’s ancestral origins- the coast of Yaffa, Palestine, to her birthplace of Kuwait, eventually landing on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The narrative confronts generations of silence and ultimately, …
My Book 18 of 2022 is The Arsonists City by Hala Alyan. You might've noticed I read this author's 1st novel a couple books back and was so entranced I needed to get my hands on her second one. When I started my Creative Writing MFA degree back in the day, I originally went into …
My 14th book of 2022 is Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. To check out my previous & future book posts, be sure you are following my on Ig @nadasamihwrites Every August, an alarm goes off in my head,“Time for Tuck Everlasting!” It’s a nameless urge that beckons me to re-read this book like clockwork. I …
As an ESL teacher, I think a lot about the stages of language acquisition, my immigrant and refugee students and their families, and what we often lose along the way. I remember my mother remarking how relieved she felt when she was able to pull some strings at the education office and placed me in …
I thought it was about time to shout out my fellow bilingual peeps out there. This creative writing prompt is for you: choose a word in your first language (or any language if you acquired more than one language around the same age) and look up the etymology (the history)… write your thoughts on the …
This time last year, we took our first family trip out west. My husband, a community organizer, got the opportunity to attend a conference in Olympia, Washington, a place he called home for four years as a college student at the Evergreen State College. I had never been out west before and my eagerness to …
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Ive kept a journal most my life. I remember my first journal was a gift from my aunt when I was in the second grade. It was one of those themed journals, in this case it was from The Secret Garden. It was fully illustrated and included short quotes from the book alongside broad blank …
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Nada Samih-Rotondo 