Our senses remember
War changed the meaning of sound for this Lebanese Palestinian: I have left my home and city, but fear does not leave me.
Jana Al Hanafi
- Lebanon
Jana Al Hanafi graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communication at Jinan University. She is a journalist and Arabic writer living in Lebanon. In May 2026 her home in Tyre, in southern Lebanon, was partially destroyed by an airstrike.
Palestine is a priority in her writings and life. Writing is freedom, and freedom is the first step in liberation, she says.
Current as of June 2026
War changed the meaning of sound for this Lebanese Palestinian: I have left my home and city, but fear does not leave me.
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