Maha Zimmo, author of rose-water syrup, is from a Palestinian background, with much of her family still living in the occupied Gaza Strip. While she immigrated to Canada at the age of four with her parents, Maha’s identity of being an immigrant and a Palestinian in the West helped shaped her into the prolific writer she is … Continue reading A look at ‘rose-water syrup’, a beautiful and powerful collection of poems [book review]