Shaimaa has always seen life differently — beautifully — and focused on the positive, no matter the hardship.
My young cousins imagine a “City of Dreams” where there are no bombs, only fun and even boredom.
Day after day, the children would wait for me to open the book and transport them to another world.
I muse about Gaza, my home, and the things I’ve lost.
Bombs shook the olive trees as we harvested — but we kept harvesting.
How much pain can one family endure? A 15-year-old girl in Gaza shares her story of loss and survival.
Gaza has become the city where happiness is snatched away without warning, where love and death walk hand in hand.
Characters in novels have fortified me against the chaos I am living in right now and helped me determine how to respond.
More than 3,000 women in Gaza have been widowed since October 2023 and face enormous challenges.
So many of us still / hold our phones, read / your poems — not / losing hope.
My very sick child waits and waits for Israel to permit her to leave Gaza for the medical care she desperately needs.
A young woman survives both a missile attack that killed family members and a weeks-long siege of her neighborhood.
