Summary
Gaza-based educator and professor of English literature, author of the memoir chapter “Gaza Asks: When Shall This Pass?” in Light in Gaza and editor of Gaza Writes Back (Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, PDF p.27, p.34-35).
Details
- Alareer taught world literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza, with a master’s degree in comparative literature from University College London (Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, PDF p.34).
- His father was shot at the Nahal Oz crossing in 1985 and his cousin Tayseer, a farmer, was killed there in 2001; Alareer himself was wounded by rubber-coated bullets as a boy and survived the First Intifada (Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, PDF p.30-33).
- After Operation Cast Lead (2008-9) he told his students that writing is testimony, and trained them to write the stories that became Gaza Writes Back (2014) (Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, PDF p.34-35).
- In the 2014 war Israel bombed his IUG office and killed his brother Mohammed and many relatives in and after the Shuja’iyya massacre; he and his wife Nusayba have over thirty relatives killed by Israel in two decades (Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, PDF p.36, p.39-40).
- During the May 2021 assault, Jehad Abusalim hosted Alareer and Asmaa Abu Mezied on a Facebook Live event as bombs fell (Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, PDF p.18).
Related pages
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, Gaza Writes Back, Islamic University of Gaza, Asmaa Abu Mezied