
Longing for death
‘I think about leaving. The idea of not existing flows into the room. It has a blue shady aura. It comes and goes.’
Alia Kassab was an English literature and translation student at the Islamic University of Gaza. Now she is a liberal arts student at the University of New Mexico.
“Literature found me when I was 11,” she says. “It was my only solace. Now, I live to be a writer so that I can pay the debt. I feel writing back is the only way.”
Current as of November 2024
‘I think about leaving. The idea of not existing flows into the room. It has a blue shady aura. It comes and goes.’
This Gazan wanted to die, but the last words of Dr. Refaat Alareer changed her mind.
A young writer searches for meaning as the bombs fall on Gaza yet again.
There are worlds in words. I want to know: what are the reaches and boundaries of language?