we are not numbers
emerging writers from Palestine tell their stories and advocate for their human rights
Mariam is a Palestinian-Indian born in New York (USA) and raised in New Jersey. (Her father is a Palestinian from Gaza and her mother is Indian.) She is studying social work at New York University and will spend the 2018-19 school year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eventually, Mariam wants to go to law school. She is also married to a Palestinian-American poet.
They call the revolution in the Arab world a “spring,” as if, out of nowhere, we appeared.
What keeps Gazans from giving up in the face of oppression?
I am Palestinian, but cannot visit Palestine. This is the fate of an exile in the diaspora.
I hear the sounds of cars driving by, but what really rings in my ears are the sounds of gunshots I’ve heard in Facebook videos of snipers injuring thousands of protesters.
