Ali Al Hajj Hussein
Literature
Ali Al Haj Hussein is a slam poet who won the 2024 Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam and People’s Choice with his team. He has recently been included in the publishing of Poetry & Prints For Palestine and the Muslim Poetry Anthology.
Constructing poems after hours away from his professional construction role, poetry became his conduit to addressing politics, identity and mental health.
He has been competing in slam poetry yearly since 2016, featuring on ABC, TedX, Town Hall, Sydney Opera House, Parliament House, Sydney Writer’s Festival, religious and community events.
Blueprint for Victory - May 2024 - Sydney Writer’s Festival
Resistance, looks like the old ladies in the village,
Who fearlessly front IOF soldiers looking down the barrels of their rifles,
Unphased, warriors!
That gave birth to warriors.
The ladies that know the direction of olive tree roots below ground like the veins mapped on the back of their hands,
The carving hand wielding the jagged knife of division, couldn’t stop the healing needle of resistance stitching sutures like the thread of a surgeon closing open wounds over 100 years old.
Where have you seen a soil so bountiful in what it bears, and burdened in what it bares witness to.
A soil nourished by the blood of martyrs, who’s blood will be the ink used to write the epics of liberation .
2 days before the 24th anniversary of Lebanon’s independence and kicking Israel out in diapers, really living up to that IDF name.
This is a blueprint for victory,
And it looks like;
Resistance,
Liberation
Independence
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