For the Yemeniyat: Who Are We Before We Are Defined?
Note: This essay emerges from my lived experience and the witnessing of parallel lives within the Yemeni community. It is not an attempt to define a singular reality, but to …
Rasha Almulaiki is a Yemeniya American writer based in Detroit, Michigan. A poet, essayist, journalist, and fiction writer, her work explores diaspora, mysticism, gender, cultural memory, and the intersections of the sacred and profane. Her journalism has appeared in The Arab American News, The Michigan Chronicle, and Metro Times. She is also the founder and principal of ADALA PR Agency LLC, a boutique communications firm dedicated to storytelling at the intersection of arts, culture, and advocacy. Her literary practice blends lyrical nonfiction, speculative storytelling, and philosophical inquiry, challenging conventional narratives of identity, belonging, and resistance. She is currently working on a collection of Arab and Yemeni horror short stories that explores folklore, ancestral memory, and the supernatural.For more of her writing and public relations work, visit linktr.ee/raspberry_rasha
Note: This essay emerges from my lived experience and the witnessing of parallel lives within the Yemeni community. It is not an attempt to define a singular reality, but to …
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