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The War We Carry
For Palestinians forced out of Gaza, survival means bearing a second trauma: the endless dislocation of exile.
Aug 22
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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What hunger sounds like
An audio story about the noise hunger makes in Gaza and the silence around it
Jun 6
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Some of us are tired of surviving
For many in Gaza, death isn't always the worst outcome.
May 31
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When reporters become reported
In Gaza, the journalist and the civilian are often one and the same — both targets, both testimonies.
May 14
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What It Feels Like to Starve
What we are witnessing now in Gaza is not a famine of nature. It is famine as a weapon of mass destruction.
May 12
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I won an Izzy Award. I accept it in the name of Gaza’s journalists
Most of the stories that brought me here were written in darkness — literal and figurative — without power, protection, and barely enough to survive…
May 10
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The unbearable task of reporting on Gaza while my colleagues get killed around me
Traumatized and weary, journalists in Gaza file stories between airstrikes, capturing what remains of lives and landscapes before they, too, are erased.
Apr 29
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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.
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