Ahmad M. Elkhuwaja
A Palestinian writer and storyteller from Gaza City. His work explores how time moves through people—how memory, loss, and resilience shape both individual and collective experience. Through fiction and creative projects, he seeks to capture the subtle intersections between history, emotion, and the present moment.
Ahmad is the author of Someone’s Daughter, the first zine in a four-part series.
Someone's Daughter
A young couple meets in the ruins, defying everything, stealing moments to feel human once again. Above them, an eye watches from a distance. Between the watcher and the watched, a single moment will decide everything. Fast-moving and tender, this short story is the fi…
Lives on the Shore is a four-part collection of short story zines unfolding across the 2023–2025 genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The stories trace the intertwined lives of Palestinians and the Israeli military.
Each story stands alone yet exists within the same fragile world—a universe where time bends and returns, and where the smallest gestures echo across parallel lives. The collection captures not just the destruction of a place, but the persistence of ordinary existence within it.
Lives on the Shore invites the reader into a suspended world, one where human lives, time, and memory blur into each other like the tide. Together, these stories form a constellation of simultaneous experiences, reflecting a shared, haunted world where every life is a shore to another.
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