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My friendship with an American living near the U.S. wildfires propels my advocacy for humanism over vengeful thinking.
Aseel Zeineddin
  • Gaza Strip
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My friendship with an American living near the U.S. wildfires propels my advocacy for humanism over vengeful thinking.
Waiting for a return to life’s colors, I was paralyzed by inaction until I began drawing in black and white.
‘In every moment, his image is before us as we continue the journey as he would have, if he were still here.’

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Support for Palestine has increased in many countries, and history will no longer be kind to Israel.
Day after day, the children would wait for me to open the book and transport them to another world.
A young man is distraught over the beloved horse he had to leave behind when he was displaced to southern Gaza.
Yes, Yara / you will survive / but what is survival?
Omar turned his head up to the sky / his heart aching / for his murdered brother’s family.
We huddle, shivering, in a serpentine line / a thousand souls, each yearning for a loaf of bread.