Rafeef Ziadah - Palestinian Activist

Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian activist, academic and spoken word artist. 
She is currently a Phd. candidate in Political Science at York University in Toronto. 
She is a founding member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) promoting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestement and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in Canada, and an organizer of the international Israeli Apartheid Week. 
She is a member of the steering committee of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott Initiative (PACBI).

Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza.

This is a transcript of her poem "We teach life, sir"