What would you pack if you had six minutes to abandon everything you had ever built? From Gaza, Roaa Shamallakh recounts her final minutes before forced displacement.
Six minutes to flee
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‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat Alareer
The author and academic Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work titled “If I Must Die” tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change.
Poetry as terrorism
Palestinian poet and Israeli citizen Dareen Tatour was sentenced to 5 months in prison for posting a poem titled ‘Resist, my people resist them’ on social media.