Gaza Calling: Will the World Pick Up?
A strong voice, calling from the heart of Gaza, commands attention in this collection of eleven pieces of writing by Taqwa Al-Wawi. Searing with intelligence and passion, these poems and articles demonstrate the author’s high respect for language and clear speech. Lines ring with meaning and urgency, but on the other side of the call, no one answers. A frustrated cry from the gifted in Gaza, whose perfect sentences put global leadership to shame.
Message to the Reader
Every word in this zine carries our hearts, our grief, and our defiance. We are human, just like you, with dreams that stretch beyond borders. Remember us, feel with us, and know that even in the face of genocide, we endure—and our voices will not be silenced. Thank you!
Reviews
“Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi’s Gaza Calling is an evocative, unsparing, and steadfast accounting of what she has lost to Israel’s genocide in Gaza: family, friends and teachers, beloved land and places, and imagined futures. Her project bears forward other Palestinian writers who have been martyred, leaving Al-Wawi to speak for them. As Al-Wawi contends with this honour and this burden, her language is unflinching and lovely. Despite the world’s abject failure to Palestinians, her words carry an enduring hope and trust in the reader and the act of expression.”
—Thea Lim, author of An Ocean of Minutes.
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