Badia Kashgari was born in Taif, Saudi Arabia. Mainly self-taught, she was employed as a teacher at the age of 16 and later earned an honours degree in English literature from the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. She has published numerous books of poetry and anthologies, and her work has been translated to the German and Danish.
Did I not come into your life passively?
Or from the zenith of my mind?
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