Video - 'A message written in blood' – British female poet Sana al-Yemen takes on Islamic State.

Video - 'A message written in blood' – British female poet Sana al-Yemen takes on Islamic State.(middleeasteye).

Hours after Sana al-Yemen posted a video of herself last month reciting a poem about the Islamic State (IS) on YouTube her phone started to ring.

A producer at Al-Jazeera news channel who had seen the clip wanted to interview her. Minutes later CNN called, then the BBC. Sana’s poem, a blistering attack on the militant group that has overrun large parts of Syria and Iraq, had gone viral. Read the full story here.