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WANN

we are not numbers

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

Mariam Abukwaik

    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.

    my work

    Existing amidst colonialism

    We all have a white supremacy problem.
    Mariam Abukwaik

      Unforgiving limbs

      Every Palestinian lives with generational trauma.
      Mariam Abukwaik

        Al-Thawra Al-Arabiya (Arab Spring)

        They call the revolution in the Arab world a "spring," as if, out of nowhere, we appeared.
        Mariam Abukwaik

          God in the Great Return March

          What keeps Gazans from giving up in the face of oppression?
          Mariam Abukwaik

            Diaspora

            I am Palestinian, but cannot visit Palestine. This is the fate of an exile in the diaspora.
            Mariam Abukwaik

              To my family in Gaza

              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.
              Mariam Abukwaik