Tayf Almoghazy
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Tayf Almoghazy, MFA. Tayf’s thesis is a collection of nonfiction lyrical essays entitled A Departure and an Unsettling: On precarious migration in the hour of genocice.
Tayf is a writer and multidisciplinary artist from Cairo, Egypt. Their work moves across disciplines to examine identity, memory, intimacy, and political belonging. Through lyric and experimental forms, they engage with personal narrative alongside histories of displacement, conflict, and cultural inheritance. Tayf served as Executive Editor of PRISM international from 2024–2025 while completing an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. Their practice is grounded in artistic experimentation, collaboration, and community engagement across literary and cultural spaces.
A Departure and an Unsettling explores how queerness, faith, migration, and displacement shape belonging. Through personal reflections, storytelling, and poetic language, the text moves between the author’s lived experience and the larger global context in which this life unfolds. Written lyrically and out of chronology, the work draws from personal narrative, fragments of memory, and historic events, from the Egyptian revolution, to the genocide in Palestine and the ongoing irradiation of Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island. The work examines sexuality, gender, religion, and resilience in the face of public erasure of marginalised lives.
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