Mohammed R Mhawish

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August 2025

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

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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, 2025 • Mohammed R. Mhawish

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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, 2025 • Mohammed R. Mhawish

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July 2025

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

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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, 2025 • Mohammed R. Mhawish

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June 2025

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

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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, 2025 • Mohammed R. Mhawish

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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, 2025 • Mohammed R. Mhawish

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