New Me
It is nice to be among such creative people. This is new me, an Egyptian woman who left her comfortable zone in Egypt in her late fifties. A woman who is newly American, (just few months ago).
A new person who started a new chapter of her life by going to college and starting a new career with child development. A woman who spent her entire career working in the office and shifted to work among American children. A woman who earned her degree in her early sixties. A woman who is still trying hard to figure her role as a wife, mother, grandmother and a writer.
A new me who want to be a writer and write in English not in her native language “Arabic”.
I define myself a writer but an Egyptian writer. I used to write and express my thoughts in Arabic. I hope I can write, and express myself in English.
My journey in life has stumbling, success, sour and sugar, ups and downs.
I look forward to be a writer and believe in myself and my skills. I have written and published two short story books in Arabic, a long time ago.
I did not mirror myself as a writer and for sure, I did not take my writing seriously and did not have a faith in myself.
Being among all of you, reading your writings, learning from your experiences and sharing your thoughts here, made me feel, I’m in the right place with the right people.
I hope I will take my writing more seriously, I hope I can have a book written and published in English. I hope I can sum up my life journey in a book that can say a lot and express a lot about me, new Souma, new me.