Mohammed R Mhawish
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Archive
About
Still
a conundrum of writing in the park
Apr 26
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
21
1
6
I Also Grieve You
Palestine speaks. She is not always gentle. She has earned that.
Mar 12
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
87
13
33
The Iran War Is a Disaster for Gaza
How the crisis leaves Gaza’s 2 million people more friendless, isolated, and vulnerable than ever before.
Mar 10
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
48
3
8
The Body Keeps Its Own Scripture
A poem
Feb 20
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
66
12
16
I Thought He Wanted to Say Hello
A subway encounter with a stranger
Jan 2
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
93
30
22
Latest
Top
Discussions
The War We Carry
For Palestinians forced out of Gaza, survival means bearing a second trauma: the endless dislocation of exile.
Aug 22, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
77
13
29
Severed, a Gaza film I co-produced, is about one boy — and all of us
Through the story of a boy who lost everything, we tell the truth about a people who continue to live.
Aug 5, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
225
10
88
I wrote on Gaza’s mental-health crisis for The New Yorker
Gaza’s mental-health workers are trying to heal others while carrying their own grief. This is what they told me.
Aug 5, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
60
12
22
Israel’s aid concessions merely offer Gazans survival on a leash
To deflect international outrage, Israel’s strategy is clear: maintain enough control to kill with impunity, and enough relief to look humane while…
Jul 29, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
43
10
20
“We’re starving”: A Gaza journalist’s dispatch from the midst of starvation
This dispatch from my colleague and friend Ruwaida Amer speaks more powerfully than anything I could write alone.
Jul 21, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
65
6
42
We don't have to be dead for your movements to be alive
I’ve lost more than words can hold and I refuse to let the world dress that up as strength.
Jun 18, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
105
25
46
My toddler watched Ms. Rachel in the rubble of our Gaza home. She just talked to me — and him
On why Ms. Rachel’s stand for the children in Gaza gave Palestinian parents like me hope.
Jun 15, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
813
25
212
Gaza needs bread and breath. But when aid stops, funerals begin
The recent pledge of aid to Gaza is a cruel illusion, and amounts to nothing other than another layer of death and suffering.
Jun 11, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
41
8
22
What hunger sounds like
An audio story about the noise hunger makes in Gaza and the silence around it
Jun 6, 2025
•
Mohammed R. Mhawish
38
2
12
See all
Mohammed R Mhawish
Exiled Notes is where I write from the edges of life and displacement, tracing stories of survival, memory, and the politics that shape Palestinians' lives.
Subscribe
Recommendations
Asmaa’s Substack
Asmaa Yassin
Mohammed R Mhawish
Subscribe
About
Archive
Recommendations
Sitemap
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
