Jihad Yassine

Jihad Yassine is a poet and winner of the 2025 Bankstown Poetry Grand Slam. He was a finalist for Australian Poetry Slam 2024, and a finalist of the 2024 National Youth Poetry Slam. He has featured at numerous poetry slams across Australia. He writes about the clash of identity in being an Arab man living in an English world, so as to give people who struggle with language and heritage something to relate to. He loves to hike and explore nature and does so to keep himself in wonder of Allah. Home Between the Cedar Trees is his debut collection.