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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Mosab Abu Toha: Israel murdered an artist yesterday. Elham al-Boddi, 33, from Beit Lahia. Her husband was killed months ago.

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Israel murdered an artist yesterday. Elham al-Boddi, 33, from Beit Lahia [Gaza, Palestine.]
Her husband was killed months ago.
Mosab Abu Toha

Pulitzer Prize winner
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

"Why aren't Palestinian prisoners called hostages too?"  https://www.instagram.com/mosab_abutoha/reel/DJiG3WhSgqF/

Founder at Library & Bookshop For Gaza

From Gaza City PALESTINE
   Pronounces name MOH-sub uh-BOO-TOH-hah

Mosab Abu Toha receives 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Mosab Abu Toha, who was a 2019–2020 fellow in Harvard’s Scholars At Risk program and a visiting poet in our department, received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. His essays in  The New Yorker offered an intimate portrayal of life in Gaza amidst ongoing conflict, which the Pulitzer committee commended for combining “deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience.”

Abu Toha, a poet and educator, founded Gaza’s first English-language library. He is the author of Forest of Noise and Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, the latter a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of an American Book Award.

“Under the Rubble”

“In Jabalia camp, a mother collects her daughter’s / flesh in a piggy bank, / hoping to buy her a plot / on a river in a faraway land.”

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