Abdelfatteh Fadel
A medical student and writer who is learning how to heal bodies while trying to write his way through the pain inside himself. He writes when words are all he has left, when silence becomes too heavy to bear. Paper and pen are his way to survive, to say what cannot be spoken. In every line, he leaves a piece of himself and his thoughts, as if he is slowly healing from inside.
Abdelfatteh is the author of Between Estrangement, My Mom, and Gaza, illustrated by Carina Zidan.
Between Estrangement, My Mom, and Gaza
Originally written in Arabic, this short story fictionalizes heart-breaking conversations, shared between the author and his mother during the genocide. Separated by distance and dramatically different circumstances, the narrator marvels at his mo…
I dedicate this to my family and all the martyrs of Gaza.
To the reader who carries a heart capable of listening, this story is not merely a collection of letters and words, but rather a cry, suspended between an embrace I can no longer reach. Between exile, my mother, and Gaza… I have written an extension of myself. If you read me, then read me with your heart before you read me with your eyes, and I leave you to live these words as if you were the stranger, the son, and the one from Gaza.—inner pages, Letter to the Reader
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