Alaa Mahdi Kudaih is a Gazan photographer and content creator. In 2018, she won a full scholarship from the Turkish government to study psychological counseling and guidance, and she graduated from Sakarya University in 2023. She recently moved to Belgium.
Alaa is a founder of “Dmma Therapy,” which aims to share and publish information that promotes awareness about mental health. She conducts psychological counseling sessions in Turkish, English, and Arabic, both face to face and online. She likes to quote Gandhi: “Be the change that you want to see in the world,” and believes that mental health is essential for anyone who wants to change the world.
Current as of March 2024
Maybe I would have sat longer in our garden / where jasmine crept up cracked walls / and everything still felt alive.
Scarred / I never chose / a fate etched in the stones of Al-Shati / or a history written in bullets / bombs and blockades.
Again, it is December / Second December / Without stars.
A year of fear / A year of sleeplessness / A year of breathlessness / A year of loss
‘Shahad and I always loved clarity; if she could now explain her fate to me, she would not hesitate to do so.’
A young son’s strong attachment to his mother cannot protect him from the violence of Israel’s bombs on Gaza.
A young man and his family, seeking to escape death in north Gaza, meet death on the road.
His dreams were killed by the occupation, but his spirit lives on.
