On my third trip to the city, everything felt different—strange, suffocating, and heavy.

Each night I wrap myself in her, begging her / not to abandon me on this long dark road.

Hassan Eslaiah was the 215th journalist to be assassinated since October 7, 2023, in a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

Lamia Hatem, who founded the first school for the children of martyrs in Gaza, is both mother and teacher to her students.

A mobile app payment system is a strange contradiction to the primitive way we are still forced to live after the ‘ceasefire.’

For my friend, every step of the wedding ritual was recreated despite the losses and the constraints imposed by war.

I tremble each time / a table of food / appears before me.

As for me—If I must die, let my body remain whole.

From the balcony of our home, we now look out at bombed buildings, a pool of sewage water, and dark clouds of pollution hovering over a lifeless sea.

‘I can still hear their cries when we left the house,’ says Mera. ‘I tried to hold them, to tell them everything would be fine — but I couldn’t believe it myself.’

In Gaza, peril surrounds pregnancy, birth, and infancy. Parents wonder how much longer their children will be denied the right to live in safety.

You were / The sigh of an orange tree / The hymn of faith, and love, and joy.