
Wedad, the young warrior
A young girl fights against the challenges of war to help her widowed mother and care for three younger siblings.
- Gaza Strip

A young girl fights against the challenges of war to help her widowed mother and care for three younger siblings.

I’m a whisper caught in the city’s breath / An echo trapped in the screams of death.

The founder of 16th October Media Group was instrumental in the career development of many Palestinian media professionals.

You blinded me / No moon / No rainbow / No stars.

Israel’s war on Gaza has added huge obstacles in the way of my university progress — but they are surmountable.

They burned me, Mama / My heart was crying / Because my eyes melted / From the fire.

My nieces’ superpowers are their unbreakable spirits, which comfort and inspire me and keep me going.

Beneath the shattered Omari Mosque, shadows cling / Blood stains the earth, and sorrow sings.

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

Farmers, students, mothers: All of them have experienced a year of displacement and a year lost.

My traumatic ordeal in north Gaza is near-universal for the more than 2 million citizens of Gaza.

My breath mingles with dust / My face, too, with blood.