Shaimaa’s father could not hold her hand on her wedding day.

We are living what we are reporting: fear, loss, displacement, hunger, danger.

Children who lost parents before 2023 are not eligible for the emergency assistance available to post-war orphans.

In Gaza, the biggest challenge of motherhood is being unable to provide what your child needs and deserves.

The city reeks of death and tears / You might argue tears are odorless / How wrong would that be.

The war claimed member after member of Kawthar Abdalhadi’s family.

The ground was silent that morning / Not empty / silent.

My brother and I used to scare ourselves by watching horror movies. Now we are living one.

Grief, loss, and fear have destroyed the possibility of celebrating what should be the happiest occasions.

My personal reading of the poem, ‘To A Young Poet,’ is shaped by exile, media habituation, and emotional numbness.

Do not ask me for stars / Do not, because the sky and I / are no longer speaking.

Her inspiration, support, and love have helped me persevere through momentous challenges to obtain my master’s degree