we are not numbers

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

Knock knock! Who’s there?

Someone fair with curly hair

Liked discussions atmosphere

Goals are waiting for me to achieve it over there

Psychoanalyst want to be

Interested in economy

And politics maybe!

Music always with me

So I’m learning guitar

Certainly I’m not a poet or a writer

But things happened with me

Made me stronger

Apologies! Forgot my name

“Yousef Dawas”

So meet me somewhere else

I won’t say my age

Because it’ll not be the SAME!

My family will replace the trees destroyed by Israeli missiles, but we cannot reclaim the years spent nurturing them.