At a musical concert in the middle of a genocide, the atmosphere morphed into something almost unimaginable— one of joy, cheer, and laughter.
The writers will receive six months of training in journalism and other topics and also will be paired with international mentors.
The first tasks for Islam Albarbari and Aseel Zeineddin is to launch training for WANN’s incoming cohort of writers.
Ahmed Alnaouq cohosts with Hala Hanina, South African former ANC MP, anti-apartheid activist, and investigative author Andrew Feinstein and Gaza-born writer, playwright, and academic Ahmed Masoud
Funding Master’s scholarships for talented students from Gaza
At a musical concert in the middle of a genocide, the atmosphere morphed into something almost unimaginable— one of joy, cheer, and laughter.
In Gaza, the deliberate leveling of everything beyond the “yellow line” ensures that there is no home to return to.
I return to the shore again and again, searching for freedom in the only horizon still open to me.
Every time I try to grasp the idea that he won’t return, I feel a burning pain, like trying to stare directly into the sun.
Daily travel is a real struggle, but free rides from strangers remind me it is possible to overcome obstacles and retain hope.
How can an entire city become ‘past’? How can it be written so simply, as if it had never been a living place, filled with people?
When you love a woman from Gaza / you inherit a homeland / without ever touching its soil
If I had the choice / would I wake up somewhere / untouched by grief.
‘No life without my family / No mornings without my sun, without my home.’
