Hind Rajab deserved a film that knew her. I reviewed "The Voice of Hind Rajab", the thriller that made Palestinians the agents of their own death. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-...

Here is @mohamhawish.bsky.social with a provocative and thoughtful critique of "The Voice of Hind Rajab" www.thekeymagazine.com/p/the-voice-...

i gave her the floor. she had always been given the floor last. she had things to say. she spoke and she was not entirely kind and I loved her more for it - read full poem here: www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/i-also-gri...

New in @thenation: The widening Iran war may redraw the Middle East—but Gaza is the place paying the price first, beginning with deeper isolation and an even more dangerous future. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Must-read today in @thenation.com: the peerless @mohamhawish.bsky.social on why the Iran war is a disaster for the people of Gaza. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Tried to put some words to some thoughts. Appreciate the read. www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/the-body-k...

@thenation.com has been a critical voice in the media, amplifying Palestinian voices over the years. Today, the magazine turns its coverage for a full day on Gaza an by writers from Gaza only. Honored to have contributed to this important work! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Honored to have been featured in The Guardian US with Muslim creatives and intellectuals helping usher in a new era for New York City. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Since the ceasefire was called, more than 420 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire. @mohamhawish.bsky.social dissects the language that has surrounded this period of reconstruction.

Here's just a few of the pieces in our "Day for Gaza" package. We have @mohamhawish.bsky.social on the hollowness of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza: "What do you call a ceasefire agreement under which people keep dying?" www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Joined Al Jazeera’s The Take to discuss the latest developments in Gaza, why the peace plan has stalled, and what's coming next. Tune in for a listen here - or wherever you get your podcasts! omny.fm/shows/the-ta...

The One Where I was an Idiot. www.mohammedmhawish.com/p/i-thought-...

The Gaza peace plan has divided the Strip into color-coded zones that determine where Palestinians can live and rebuild, and half of Gaza is off-limits indefinitely. I reported on the stalled ceasefire and why phase two might never materialize. @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are meeting as phase two of the Gaza ceasefire fails to materialize. My new story in @newyorker.com examines what went wrong—and how the plan stalled without resolving who governs Gaza, or who consents. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“It is reasonable to imagine that much of the information that the Israelis gathered over the past two years will be a new baseline for an expanded archive, a standing watch list.” @mohamhawish.bsky.social reports on life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

“Life in Gaza for the past two years has been a process of losing everything visible — our families, homes, streets,” @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes. It also means losing what cannot be seen: “the ability to speak without fear of being monitored by a machine.”

@mohamhawish.bsky.social speaks to more than a dozen people living in Gaza under a regime of ceaseless surveillance. One man now avoids calling his brother and has described the collapse of connection itself in his life.

Since October 7, the Israeli army has generated kill lists using AI, monitored the social-media accounts of Palestinians, and stored the audio of their phone calls. @mohamhawish.bsky.social reports on how technology has reshaped the daily lives of Gazans.

I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com

"This is the dystopian consequence of surveillance technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes at @nymag.com >>

"This is the dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." By @mohamhawish.bsky.social in @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

“The next phase of Gaza’s life must be shaped by those who have lived through its collapse.” @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes about Donald Trump’s peace plan and the future of Palestine.

Latest: "Rebuilding a life in exile feels like trying to reassemble a shattered mosaic, the pieces scattered across distances that can’t be bridged. I’ve learned how to live in two places at once and belong fully to neither."

I recently helped co-produce a film on Gaza called Severed, a short documentary that follows the story of Mohamad Saleh, an eighteen-year-old amputee from Gaza.

I wrote for The New Yorker about Gaza’s mental health crisis, and spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through relentless trauma, while they themselves are displaced, grieving, and surviving day by day. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The world will only let us live if we are dying beautifully, if our corpses can teach something, if our pain can be folded into their politics. Our lives are useful to them only when they are ending.

Every day I watch death arrive in numbers, twenty bodies before breakfast, fifty more by noon, a hundred before the sky darkens, and somehow, the count resets and begins again the next morning like it’s routine now. Latest post now live:

For parents like me, who have lived this war with our children, fled bombings, rationed food، and buried friends and relatives, Ms. Rachel's voice has felt like a crack of light breaking through an otherwise impenetrable silence.

I didn’t expect my 3-year-old son to find comfort in a YouTube screen while we were surviving a war. But during the long, hunger-filled days of displacement in Gaza, with bombs overhead and no clean water in our mouths, he would whisper her name like a lifeline: “Ms. Rachel.”

The icon @mohamhawish.bsky.social is on THIS AMERICAN FREAKING LIFE this week, hosting a segment about starvation in Gaza that is brilliant and humane and filled with love. Listen listen listen: www.thisamericanlife.org/861/group-ch...

This week on @ThisAmerLife: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation. Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.

Her name was Sameera and she was sixty-two. Her husband was too sick to walk and she couldn’t carry him. “If we leave, we die on the road. If we stay, we die here,” she said. “At least here I know the ground. I know which walls will fall on me.”

I don’t write this from a place of survivor’s pride but survivor’s shame. While I am alive and safe, my colleagues are not only risking their lives; they are doing so under conditions that defy imagination. And it leaves me asking: What does freedom of the press mean when it is met with a missile?

A year ago, I was living the same nightmare that 2.2 million people in Gaza are currently living: constant exhaustion, dehydration, rapid weight loss. Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.

Most of the stories that brought me here were written in darkness — literal and figurative — without power, protection, and barely enough to survive. This honor is for those who kept writing anyway.

Traumatized and weary, journalists in Gaza file stories between airstrikes, capturing what remains of lives and landscapes before they, too, are erased.

Just wrote a little something here...

“I found her ring in the rubble, blackened, but I could still see our names engraved inside. I held it so tight it cut my palm. I didn’t feel it. All I felt was her absence.” I talked with twenty people in Gaza after the ceasefire, who shared raw, heart-wrenching stories of grief, loss, and hope.

I can’t describe this storm of emotions—joy, tears, scenes of families reuniting, finally returning home. For every Palestinian, for Gaza, this moment is just breathtaking.🕊️❤️

NEW: As a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza takes hold, Palestinian father and journalist @mohamhawish.bsky.social reflects on survival amid unimaginable loss and the uncertainty around returning home. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...

As a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Gaza takes hold, my friend @mohamhawish.bsky.social reflects for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on survival amid unimaginable loss and the uncertainty around returning home. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...

Is it a dream? Are we dreaming? Is it all over—counting the dead, uncovering scattered bodies of children, reporting on our own homes and families getting bombed, surviving displacement and starvation at once? Is it all over now?

🚨 BREAKING: Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister confirms the Gaza ceasefire agreement will take effect on Sunday, January 19.

I am in tears. I am literally crying. For months I've dreamt of this moment... Can't believe it's finally over.

🚨🚨I can confirm Gaza ceasefire deal has just been accepted and signed by Israel and Hamas. Announcement will be out soon. Qatar, US, and Egypt will guarantee the phased plan implementation. This is a developing story… further updates will follow.

🚨Breaking: Hamas has officially submitted its approval to mediators for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.

🧵 A friend in Gaza told me “The first thing I will do after the ceasefire is go to my mother’s grave and share the news with her. I wish she were here with me in this moment.”

The iconic Palestinian writer and teacher Refaat Alareer was murdered by Israel one year ago today. Please read the stunning remembrance from @mohamhawish.bsky.social that we ran in @thenation.com in October. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I wish I could say I see the light at the end of this tunnel, but the truth is, I don’t. Twenty-five years of war, of loss, of survival — it’s hard to keep carrying the weight when you don’t know if there’s ever a finish line.