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we are not numbers

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

Tag: exile

Baby on a father's lap.

I smell death

‘My body at night rebels from all the deaths and anger. I drip sweat. I wake to my sweat like a waterfall on my body and I smell death.’
Majd Musleh
    Danish newspaper with cover story about Rahaf and photograph of him.

    ‘My brain just boils over’: Interview with a Gazan expatriate

    A graduate student in Denmark worries constantly about his family back in Gaza and the unfairness of it all.
    Salaheldin Eleyan
      Backpacks.

      Packing for exile

      We are preparing for our forced emigration from Gaza to the Sinai Desert, or for our death. One or the other.
      Abdallah Aljazzar
        Winged bird of peace, bleeding, with people hanging on desperately.

        Departed to whereabouts unknown

        My brothers were forced to evacuate our family’s home, with nowhere to go to and nowhere to shelter but the open air.
        Walaa M. Alfarra

          Mourid was born here

          I mourn the words of Mourid Barghouti, who spoke to my soul.
          Basman Derawi
          • Gaza Strip
          • Diaspora

          Becoming resilient in a world of chaos

          I feel stranded between two worlds.
          Walaa M. Alfarra

            Journey of a misplaced puzzle piece

            Home is indeed where the heart is.
            Noor Abdo

              Identity under siege

              A strong national identity is crucial to our survival as a people.
              Salsabeel Hamdan

                Language of exile

                Home is not where you are from; it is where one belongs.
                Khaled Al-Ostath

                  The dilemma of the exile (Chapter 1)

                  Traveling out of Gaza was my dream, but reality was different.
                  Khaled Al-Ostath

                    Diaspora

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

                      The fate of an exile

                      I have found freedom abroad, but am fated to be an exile forever.
                      Tamam Abusalama