Reem Sleem is a student in the Department of English Language, Literature, and Translation at Al-Azhar University. She is ambitious, loves learning languages, and has a passion for reading personal development books and novels of all types.
Reem has a talent for creative writing and has written many literary stories. Her career goal is to become a novelist and translator of literature and legal texts. She looks forward to traveling and studying for a master’s degree abroad and she seeks to be an independent, successful woman.
Reem always says to herself: “I’m still far from being what I want to be, but I’ll get there.”
Current as of July 2024
We came to Egypt fleeing death, but in exile suffering continues to chase us and we face an uncertain future.
Professor Rami once promised us an important lesson in translation, but his death taught me a deeper one.
Israel has killed more journalists and media workers than were killed in both world wars plus the wars in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan.
In three unexpected reunions in Egypt, I hear tragic stories that overshadow fond memories of Gaza.
Day after day, the children would wait for me to open the book and transport them to another world.
Cramped housing, reduced study or job prospects, depleted savings, crushing sorrow: ‘It doesn’t feel like living.’
Three children, three stories of childhood robbed.
But whatever you do / do not look up at the sky / That gray sky with its black clouds.
In Gaza books were my refuge; they had a special smell and distinctly flavored pages that I could taste with my eyes.
How do you create a life for yourself after losing home, university, and dreams?
Some incidents can make you lose hope in life – and some can help you find it.
The Israeli occupation destroyed Gaza’s public water works and killed my father’s colleagues as they repaired pipes.
