Zeina Azzam

Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist. She served as the poet laureate of Alexandria, Virginia, for 2022-25. Her publications include the full-length poetry collection, Some Things Never Leave You, the chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, and poems in literary journals and anthologies. Zeina worked in the fields of education and Middle East affairs for most of her professional career, including 27 years at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Since 2016, she has volunteered as a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a writing program for youth in Gaza, and is currently WANN’s poetry editor. Zeina holds an M.A. in Arabic literature from Georgetown University.