I muse about Gaza, my home, and the things I’ve lost.

Cramped housing, reduced study or job prospects, depleted savings, crushing sorrow: ‘It doesn’t feel like living.’

‘I think about leaving. The idea of not existing flows into the room. It has a blue shady aura. It comes and goes.’

Once upon a time / In a land not so far / A people lived in peace / How pure they truly are!

In Gaza books were my refuge; they had a special smell and distinctly flavored pages that I could taste with my eyes.

Escaping Gaza has been a journey into the unknown, a quest for safety wrapped in pain and guilt. Was I right to leave?

A young woman carries on a correspondence with the land she left and grieves for, and adds a postscript to the world.

Palestinians abroad often have to prove their national identity and endure “neutral” academic settings that neglect their reality.

Despite my terrifying experiences in Gaza under war, my responsibility to love and care for others keeps me centered.

Exiled Gazan musicians find healing and connection far from home by performing together with international artists.

A young artist’s development, both as a painter and as a dentist, has been stymied by Israel’s war on Gaza.

Despite barriers, Gaza had a music scene before the war.