we are not numbers

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

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

A young woman wearing hijab.

my work

city scape with explosion

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.

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