A Digital Window into Gaza: Mosab’s Facebook Poetry

Soccer teams play during a six-hour soccer tournament. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90

People are people. But sometimes it is difficult to maintain one’s humanity under dehumanizing conditions. On today’s episode, we share the work of one poet in Gaza whose poems and fragments open a tiny window into the Gaza strip, where only 5% of the water is potable, there is electricity for 5 hours a day, and only 55% of the population is employed. His name is Mosab, and he has created the Edward Said Library for Gaza.

Text: Mosab.

Previous episode on Mosab’s poetry

3 comments on “A Digital Window into Gaza: Mosab’s Facebook Poetry

  1. lia rosen says:

    hats off to Marcella for this moving broadcast… I also ‘met’ Mosab on Facebook, today… I’m so impressed with his poetry and really just to hear, l coming out of that place where all we know is protest, endless war, struggle, & hunger- and here as well, but to hear it through his poetry, as read on this episode touched my heart, thank you!

  2. Marcela Sulak says:

    Thank you so much for this comment, Lia Rosen.

  3. Sena Sugihara says:

    Thanks for reading my friend Mosab’s poetry and bringing awareness to the situation. I’m sure he really appreciates it.

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