Sarah Riggs and Alia Al-Sabi invite Safaa Fathy to discuss displacement, language, feminism, revolution, and ecosystems in this generous talk hosted by Earth Arts Justice. Poet, filmmaker and philosopher Safaa Fathy was born in the south of Egypt where the sand, the water, and the green fields inspired her to write her first poem, and where her uncle’s library and the restrictive atmosphere of her village created formative experiences for her. She describes how far she had to go in her travels as she came to understand her relationship to language through exile, while navigating institutional and outright racism in France. She shares her thoughts on the 2011 uprising in Egypt, as well as the current intersections of climate activism and the revolutions of Black, indigenous and people of color. She lifts up the young people of the world who are asking the questions her generation never asked.
