Naya Aljoudi

Naya Aljoudi is a poet, action-researcher, and community organizer whose work moves at the intersections of migration, memory, and resistance. Their most important identity is poet: from a young age, they understood that language can be used to combat against the systemic erasures that write many intersectional identities out of their own biographies. In their works, Naya attempts to restore their own biography undergoing the Syrian war, migration, colonial technologies and trauma to understand the world around them. Drawing on their lived experience in SWANA regions and their years working with migration communities in the Netherlands, they explore how language can reclaim dignity in contexts shaped by displacement and grief. Naya uses their love letters to resist and make trials for collective liberation, side by side.

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