'Hope so heavy to carry': Al-Shaer on harrowing plight, emotional toll, struggle to survive in Gaza
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“Hope so heavy to carry': Al-Shaer on harrowing plight, emotional toll, struggle to survive in Gaza”
Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Palestinian writer and poet Mahmoud Al-Shaer, “Am I real, or just a number in this war?” In I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza, Palestinian writer Mahmoud Al-Shaer explores how war transforms memory, childhood and the meaning of existence. Recounting his family's displacement, his daughter's understanding of a world reduced to tents, and his evacuation from Gaza, he reflects on writing as an act of resistance against erasure. His testimony reveals how the…
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