Voices without borders: Four young writers from Gaza tell their story

posted on: Aug 26, 2015

Young Gazans are finally getting an opportunity to present themselves to the world in their own words. +972 speaks to some of the participants in the ‘We Are Not Numbers’ writing project about hope, love, war and, of course, writing.

Two young men do acrobatic tricks on Gaza beach, Gaza Strip, September 1, 2013. (Basel Yazouri/Activestills)
“…and then you would think that whole years would go by, and you would still come to look through the cracks in the fence and would see the same ramparts, the same sentries and the same little corner of sky, not the sky above the prison but another sky, distant and free.”

– Fyordor Dostoyevsky

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Just over a year has passed since the most brutal war the Gaza Strip has yet witnessed. It was perhaps the most internationally-covered event in Gaza in a tumultuous and torturous decade, yet the war and its coverage highlighted a long-running problem: that the international media frequently lacks nuance when covering the Gaza Strip and its inhabitants.

Source: 972mag.com