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Tag: death
‘She was my heaven’: The tragic end of a Palestinian love story
“She was a very kind person. Why did they kill her?”
Nada Hazem Al Kahlout
May 15, 2023
Ali
Can he rewind/Lean in another direction/To dodge the bullet?
May 14, 2022
Feryal’s wedding
Feryal refused to get married many times so that she could be close to her mother and take care of her.
Israa Mohammed Jamal
April 19, 2022
No safe place
My cousin and her boys were with us, until they weren't, and I had to search for them among the body bags.
Said Al-Yacoubi
March 23, 2022
Haytham will never be a number
It has been two years. Two years of being able to sleep most nights, without waking up to the news that someone I know is dead. But I have not forgotten.
Basman Derawi
Gaza Strip
Diaspora
March 23, 2022
In an instant
The streets are not quiet for long.
Mohammed Arafat
May 15, 2021
The many waves of grief
All I have left of my uncle is a memory of a wave and a smile.
March 4, 2021
Seven years was not enough
I imagine more than remember my father. But I know he had a big heart.
Israa Alsigaly
September 21, 2020
My mother’s first Eid as a thakla
Thakla is a label for the unthinkable, a parent who outlives her child.
Amna Shabana
August 23, 2020
The end of my mother’s journey
My mother once told me I am a "piece of her heart." She has more than that of mine.
Ahmed Alnaouq
Gaza Strip
Diaspora
United Kingdom
April 27, 2020
A life behind walls
When you are Palestinian, you are born and die behind a wall.
Basman Derawi
Gaza Strip
Diaspora
November 26, 2019
Is there hope?
Images like this one are seared into my brain.
Malak Hijazi
October 1, 2019