Resilience

Teach me how to live again— How a flower insists on blooming in soil long abandoned to barrenness, how the sins of a distant past might dare to be forgiven.…

Since April 2025, I have lived through days that reshaped my understanding of what it means to plan for the future. There were moments when even the idea of dreaming…

On a dark night in October 10, 2023, a stray rocket hit our house, destroying the upper floor. Fortunately, we were all on the ground floor, hiding from the deafening…

I will never forget the moment my friends and I got arrested. Soldiers, armed with heavy weapons, surrounded us, pointing their rifles at us as if we were a real…

I am one of thousands of Palestinian students who have been abruptly stripped of our classrooms, books, teachers—and certainty about the future. I write these words from Gaza, where education…

Breathing From Under The Rubble. A Gazan Student. After working so hard for years, the day we had all been counting down to—Monday, September 1, 2025 —was approaching. "A month…