ICORN Writers: U - V - W - X - Y- Z

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Nada Yousif

Nada Yousif is a poet and journalist from Iraq. Her writing centers mainly on women's rights issues and the current socio-political situation in Iraq. Yousif's writing attracted persecution and death threats which forced her to flee her home country. Yousif is currently the ICORN guest writer in the city of Molde.

Salem Zènia

A well-known author and poet, Salem Zènia has been given a diploma of honor from the Tamazgha Association in Paris, for his contributions to Amazigh literature. Zènia is a journalist, poet and novelist. He is also the editor of a francophile monthly publication. Because he writes in the Kabylic-Berber language of Amazigh, and because of his human rights activism, publication of his books has been prohibited in Algeria.