Summary
Gaza-based student, teacher and activist for the Palestinian Right of Return whose interview by Maya Rosen forms Chapter 5, “It seems like things can’t get worse”, of From the River to the Sea (conducted via WhatsApp voice messages for the Institute for Palestine Studies, 16 October 2023). He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 30 October 2023, as the chapter’s closing line and the editors’ note on contributors in Gaza record (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 244-250, 392-434).
Details
- “We are experiencing genocide. Systematic, appalling. An apocalypse.” (line 405)
- “You divested from apartheid South Africa. Why are you not boycotting Israel?” (line 413)
- The writers he turns to are Ghassan Kanafani, Frantz Fanon, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Steve Biko (line 417).
- “When I heard that the fence had been breached, I felt hope. It felt like a first step toward liberating Palestine.” (line 421)
- He fears dying without achieving his dreams: completing his PhD, rebuilding his family’s destroyed house and meeting his friends in person (line 425).
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Gaza, Right of Return, Genocide, Ghassan Kanafani, Institute for Palestine Studies