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…
By a Teacher from the Heart of Gaza’s Tent Schools
Today, no school bell rings to announce the start of our lessons. The war has confiscated our bells, levelled…
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…
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…
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…