A poet from Gaza, twenty-seven years old, writing since 2014. I write so the world knows our story in our own words — I left Gaza, but Gaza has never left me.
اسأل نفسي ما هو الذنب الذي فعلته حتى يلاحقنا كل هذا الموت بهذا البشاعة، أصدقائي أيضا في رفح لا يعرفون إلى أين يذهبوا، الكثير منهم في الطرقات دون مأوى، الجميع هنا تُسحق أحلامه وتتكسر مثلما تتكسر العظام بفعل الصواريخ
Read more →Now that I’ve reached the beginning of recovery, I feel a huge sense of responsibility toward my friends who suffer from the same disease.
Read more →اقرأ المزيد ←For our friends who died while trying to grasp life; for Bilal, Sami, Dhirgham, Musa, and many neighbors and relatives; for our homes we will never return to, and the memories buried there.
Read more →اقرأ المزيد ←I am Esam. I write for myself, for my family, and for my people. I left Gaza, but Gaza has never left me.
Read more →اقرأ المزيد ←I am from Gaza, and I tell you: We are broken. We are utterly defeated. We are defeated by means of killing, starvation, awareness, education, and life itself.
Read more →اقرأ المزيد ←I always felt that something bad was coming I just didn’t know what.
Read more →اقرأ المزيد ←I want all those small things that used to make my heart happy: falafel from Sousi in downtown, hummus from Al-Khazandar, the old café by the Saraya and the sea. The whole sea. I don’t want another place, but all of this is gone!
Read more →اقرأ المزيد ←
Esam is a poet and children's creative-writing instructor from Gaza. He studied English Literature and has lived through six episodes of aggression on the Strip. He writes to document what is happening to his people, and to carry their stories, in their own words, to the world.
— Friends of Esam
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