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Logo using words LYRA Bristol Poetry Festival with a vertically oriented fountain pen.

LYRA: Bristol Poetry Festival

WANN co-founder Ahmed Alnaouq will be reading works by young poets in Gaza on the afternoon of April 18; the festival runs from April 17-26

April 18, 2026

Dreaming of shoes

Throughout 18 months of displacement, and miles of walking between cities and refugee camps, I wore the same painful shoes.

Sujood Alkhour
  • Gaza Strip
Gaza as seen from the sea.

ID only

We were sitting at the harbor / talking about university buses / about crowding / about nothing important.

Shahd Alnaouq
  • Gaza Strip
A woman in kaffeyiah headwrap with a tear on her cheek.

Stranger

What does it mean to be / a refugee / To always feel /something missing.

Lamar Safi
  • Gaza Strip
  • Diaspora

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