we are not numbers

emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories and advocate for their human rights

Haneen Alisawi

  • Gaza Strip

Haneen Alisawi is a passionate content writer and English-Arabic translator whose heart beats for words. She sees them as the hidden bond knitting humans together. Words solely have the ability to liberate souls or shackle them, in her belief. To her, to write is to live.

Current as of May 2024

Smiling young woman in white dress and black hijab with white headband.

my work

Three children and their mother stare through a broken window at the rubble of Gaza.

War’s stoic sanity

I’m trying my hardest to keep sane: / When I see a mother’s pale face, / the one that lost its radiance after the war began

Haneen Alisawi
  • Gaza Strip

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