Dareen Tatour

(Israel, 1982) is a poet from Palestinian origine who in 2015 was put under house arrest that would last three years for posting a video on Facebook and YouTube of herself reading a poem titled Resist my people, resist them as the soundtrack to images of Palestinians in violent confrontations with Israeli troops. During her house arrest she was barred from publishing her poetry and from accessing the internet. In 2018 Tatour was sentenced to five months of prison for 'online incitement of terrorism' by the Nazareth district court. She was released from prison in October 2018.
Her first poetry collection, The last invasion, was published in 2010. A second poetry collection and a novel are ready but are on a laptop confiscated by Israeli authorities, says webmagazine Brooklyn Rail (March 2018).