Showing posts with label Palestinian poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palestinian poet. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Refaat Alareer 1979-2023 killed by Israel (but not silenced) poet, professor, writer, & one of the co-founders of We Are Not Numbers: We remember him not only for how he died, but for how he lived — teaching and inspiring generations of young Palestinians to write back and tell their stories.

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We Are Not Numbers @WeAreNotNumbers   Today, Refaat Alareer should have turned 47.    He should have been here, teaching, writing, mentoring...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

"Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case." Statement from Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha, in response to LeMoyne College's President's email

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"As scholars of genocide, we must state plainly that “genocide” is a legal, historical, and analytical concept. Its application may be...
Friday, April 10, 2026

"Whenever we remember a loved-one Israel killed, the world says they went to a better place, and I only wonder why doesn't Israel just go to a better place?" Mohammed Mousa

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Mohammed Moussa, a poet from Gaza, is also a journalist and the founder of both the Gaza Poets Society and Gaza's Creative Allies.  ht...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

"In order for me to write poetry that isn't political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent" Marwan Makhoul

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Marwan Makhoul is a Palestinian poet, born in 1979 in the village of al-Boquai’a, Upper Galilee, to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese m...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Palestinian writer and journalist Plestia Alaqad paints a stark portrait of life for Gazans under siege with The Guardian, describing a world that is both physically and symbolically shrinking...

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Palestinian writer and journalist Plestia Alaqad paints a stark portrait of life for Gazans under siege with The Guardian, describing a wor...
Friday, November 14, 2025

" ... It is a responsibility. A responsibility for them to speak as they suffer, a responsibility for me to carry their story, and a responsibility, ah, what a responsibility, for you to take action. Yes, it is your money that is killing us and funding our murderers and oppressors. It is your governments that are protecting our slaughterers." Mosab Abu Toha

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Mosab Abu Toha :  Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024)/ Pulitzer Prize/ OPC/ American Book Award/ National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist/ Found...