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Forced to relive the past five warsI had barely begun to climb out from the trauma of the 2021 Gaza war when Operation Breaking Dawn knocked me back down the ladder.
By: Abdallah Wael Nasrallah
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Pablo my dog, pure love, and lossI worked very hard to be a good owner to my dog Pablo, but it wasn’t enough. He had to go, leaving me heartbroken.
By: Hossam Wail Abo-Shammallah
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It will never be the sameA nice time at the beach, then bombs, then the trauma. I ask you this: should teens be thinking about death?
By: Karam Jad
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One more martyr’s storyAlaa al-Tahrawi, who died in Israel's August 2022 attack on Gaza, was beloved by her son, husband, uncle, and many others.
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A bachelor’s degree in warI have learned that war brings not just loss itself, but also a preoccupation with losses that could occur.
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Upside downWar is like a dark version of maqloubeh, the delicious dish that is inverted onto a platter before serving.
Gaza Strip
Forced to relive the past five warsI had barely begun to climb out from the trauma of the 2021 Gaza war when Operation Breaking Dawn knocked me back down the ladder.
Gaza Strip
Pablo my dog, pure love, and lossI worked very hard to be a good owner to my dog Pablo, but it wasn’t enough. He had to go, leaving me heartbroken.
Gaza Strip
It will never be the sameA nice time at the beach, then bombs, then the trauma. I ask you this: should teens be thinking about death?
West Bank
Facebook is silencing usJust like the real world, the digital world is biased against Palestinians.
West Bank
Friends, students—prisonersUniversity students are vulnerable to being arrested without charge.
Diaspora
Forced to relive the past five warsI had barely begun to climb out from the trauma of the 2021 Gaza war when Operation Breaking Dawn knocked me back down the ladder.
Poems
I survived
Who are the strangers holding me? This is not my mother's smell; nor my father's read more
Am I a witness
...or is my mind trapped/in an inexplicable mess,/a confusion of fear, dream, memory, news, and rumor? read more
