we are not numbers

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

Nada Hazem Al Kahlout

    Nada Hazem Al Kahlout is an English literature and education student at Al Aqsa University. She is a Gazan woman who is looking forward to breaking the records with her Neqab. She is a trainer, an Arabic writer, a voiceover and a good team worker. “Volunteering is my breath, and Palestine is my blood,” she says.

    my work

    ‘I love you more than anything in the world. I think about you all the time. I will never be okay now you are gone.’
    Men working at sea faced grave dangers from Israel before October 7. Since then, the risks have only increased.
    "I don’t know if killing innocent civilians were intentional, but I do know that killing joy in Gaza is."
    “She was a very kind person. Why did they kill her?”
    'In one of these bombings, the kitchen tiles and the windows fell on the ground while the walls cracked."
    “Muhammad’s life was very normal before he contracted the Guillain-Barre virus."
    I completed memorization of the Qur’an in the midst of the latest Israeli assault on Gaza.