'Nothing written before could mirror the profound pain that Gaza was enduring. I craved literature that could articulate what I could not even begin to process.’ @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social

‘Since leaving Khan Younis, I have not felt whole. The knowledge that complete healing will never come has become something I carry with me always, like a part of my body, like an extra limb.’ Gazan writer @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social on her multiple displacement. www.eurozine.com/displacement...

Don't let Zionists gaslight you into believing that the goal was a ceasefire A ceasefire is a necessary step. But Israeli occupation, apartheid, land theft, ethnic cleansing, mass jailing & killing of Palestinians continues The goal has always been & will always be liberation

Read my new poem on @arablit.bsky.social

The Shortlist this week: Five stories that are pretty emotionally challenging. Nonfiction by: Shaimaa Abulebda @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social in @palestinestudies.bsky.social and Susan D. Ross in Marrow Magazine (...cont'd)

Read this beautiful essay by @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social . Displacement is an Extra Limb That I Carry www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

The U.S. funded genocide in Gaza continues, food has not been allowed to enter for weeks, and the population is being starved to death.

This Saturday, take some time to donate to Spark Space! Spark Space is one of the few spaces that provides free internet and electricity to help students attend their studies, and allow remote workers to earn desperately needed income: chuffed.org/project/spar...

An Israeli drone attacked a Freedom Flotilla aid vessel near Malta early Friday, while it was en route to Gaza to challenge the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid.

On top of everything Palestinians in Gaza have to endure, these platforms keep suspending their fundraisers constantly. So when you see someone with a big amount already collected, understand that they barely get 10% of it before the platform shut its down and returns donations. Please donate here:

My personal narrative essay on displacement published @palestinestudies.bsky.social Read it here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

My personal narrative essay on displacement published @palestinestudies.bsky.social Read it here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Israel shat on every page of the Geneva Convention. No protected zones, no safe passage for civilians, blocking of aid, bombing of hospitals, killing of humanitarian workers, looting, mass killings, etc. etc. The Geneva Convention is worthless, there is no functional international law system.

يا إلهي يا حنّان يا منّان

This morning, Israeli occupation forces repeated the devastating tactics used at Kamal Adwan Hospital, this time targeting the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Israeli occupation forces surrounded the Indonesian Hospital amidst gunfire targeting 1/2👇🏻 #Gaza

Don't miss this new poem by @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social arablit.org/2025/01/02/n...

Read my new poem on ArabLit:

Read my new poem on ArabLit:

"The Tent is Closing In On Us" by Shaimaa Aboulebda arablit.org/2025/01/02/n...

Beloved contributor Shaimaa Aboulebda (she first wrote for our WEDDINGS issue) has sent an introduction to the poem of hers we will run tomorrow, "The Tent Is Closing in on Us." Find the poem on ArabLit tomorrow.

Israeli forces arrest Gaza hospital chief after ‘burning doctors and patients alive via @muslim source @middleeasteye

On December 26, Gaza's health ministry confirmed the fourth case of an infant freezing to death in 72 hours. A day later, a 28-year-old doctor also died due to hypothermia.

Three of my former students from Gaza have just graduated medical school amid unimaginable circumstances. I’m so beyond proud of them and so grateful to know them. One wrote about her experience for @palestinestudies.bsky.social: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

Everyone who got killed today in Gaza in an air strike or in an artillery shelling by a sniper was waiting for a ceasefire. And those who get killed after this is posted will be doing the same thing. And all those who got killed or maimed in the past months.

🚨 Dr. Saeed Jouda, an orthopedic surgeon in Gaza, has been killed by a direct shot to the head from an Israeli quadcopter drone while en route to Al-Awda Hospital to assist with urgent cases.

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Syrian TV broadcasts a still image with the words: The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.

The absolute horrors of the Assad regime exemplified by Saydnaya prison. Many prisoners are not freed yet bcs the rebels cannot get to them as they are 3 floors underground. #Syria

🎉🎉🎉

حبيبتي يا سوريا

*Okay, I took a couple liberties with the prompt here and shared two ish sentences. Now go read all of the rest of the sentences in the article! Every single word from @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social (quoted above) is piercing. truthout.org/articles/my-...

post the last sentence of your last article* "'I have been inspired by Palestinian writers who shared stories since the Nakba,' she said. 'Through them, I got to know Palestine. And, hopefully, through us, you will get to know and experience Gaza.'" truthout.org/articles/my-...

What I read/am reading for #readpalestineweek:

Throughout #ReadPalestineWeek, there are a selection of free ebooks available through the publishersforpalestine.org website, as well as events & actions you can take now.

City Lights publishes Nasser Rabah's GAZA: THE POEM SAID ITS PIECE in our Pocket Poets Series on April 15th, 2025. citylights.com/general-poet...

Through December 5 at publishersforpalestine.org

Israel violated the ceasefire agreement today, targeting Lebanese returning to homes on the southern border. You won't see reports of this in Western press, & if you do, it won't be reported as a violation but a justification in print for why soldiers opened fire to cease fire.

Beautiful piece ahead of #ReadPalestineWeek. Marianne talks to some of our beloved contributors: Nasser Rabah (collection forthcoming from @citylightsbooks.bsky.social), Asmaa Dwaima (find her on instagram at instagram.com/salamitsasmaa/), and Shaimaa Abulebda (whose poetry we ran last week).

#ReadPalestineWeek kicks off on Friday. For @truthout.org, I spoke to three writers in Gaza about what the initiative means to them and the actions they want readers and culture workers in the West to take to end the occupation. Read it here: truthout.org/articles/my-...

BREAKING: Israeli attacks on Gaza over the past 48 hours have killed 120 Palestinians and wounded 205, according to the enclave's Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/6yjo63

"Even in my mind's eye, I rarely visited home. I couldn't give my imagination free rein. But displacement is a cauldron, brewing a lineup of recollections from suppressed memories." a moving reflection on memory from @shaimaabulebda.bsky.social in Gaza www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

"Surviving on memories seems to be a common coping mechanism, a shared act preserving our collective memory of a better time and space. Remembrance, combined with the tendency to glorify what was lost, is engraved in our nature as human beings." Such an important read, beautifully written Shaimaa

My personal narrative on memories in Gaza in the time of genocide published @palestinestudies.bsky.social Read here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

At the National Book Awards reading night before last the poets stole the show. Fired up for poetry right now. Here’s one via the great @arablit.bsky.social very worth your time

"One morning, the weight of the genocidal war and displacement gets hold of me, and I get angry at everything and everyone around me. With the unraveling of the rage that has been pent up inside me for far too long, I stop recognizing myself." Read: arablit.org/2024/11/21/6...

A new poem by ArabLit contributor Shaimaa Abulebda. She tells us how the poem came to be: "It’s winter, and I am counting down to Ramadan. The nights are long and cold in the crowded tent, away from home.

SHORT FILMS FOR PALESTINE 📽️ 📅Dec 5 📍The Carlton Club 🎫 www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Man... Join Comma, Braziers International Film Festival and MCR Palestine Film Festival for a programme of short films for Palestine, raising money for Gaza. Ft an adaptation of Anwar Hamed's story from Palestine + 100.

People have been re-visiting the piece "Resistance and the Palestinian Folk Song" by Shaimaa Abulebda which appeared in our Spring 2021 SONG issue. arablit.org/2024/04/05/r... So glad to see people reading this; wanted to note that Shaimaa is in Gaza, if you want to offer support, there is...

Both her GoFundMe page: www.gofundme.com/f/help-evacu... And you can also join her on Instagram, where she is www.instagram.com/shai_reads She also has a new poem coming later this week on ArabLit. ❤️