Heritage & Culture

Credit: Asma Abu Hasanein | Even among the rubble. Life insists on being felt. Eid Mubarak. The Sound of Eid Do you know what Eid truly sounds like? Close your eyes…

The crescent of Ramadan this year climbs proudly to the peak of the sky. It casts the same brightness over a city that no longer has the spirit to reflect…

There was a time when the first crescent of Ramadan rose over Gaza like a silver promise—soft, luminous, and full of mercy. The air itself seemed to shift. Streets glowed…

In 2018, as a teenager on the doorstep of university, pure adrenaline would pump through me every time I slipped out of our house, sneaking through the door. My parents…

“I just cannot imagine that you could be so okay now that I’m gone.” “Looking at me, tell me, what do you see? Have I crossed the line? ” These…

My name is Sara. I am 22 years old, from Gaza, and a recent graduate of the English Literature department at the Faculty of Arts. I love reading, writing, and…

I was the only one awake.  I sat under the plastic window, holding my phone up, begging for a single sign of Wi-Fi, but in vain. And I won’t lie.…

On an early morning of November, when the air felt refreshingly cool, I looked up at the sky.  I could barely follow with my gaze the wings slicing sharply through…