Lama Alharazin
Lama is 24 years old. She studied Literature and Translation at the Islamic University of Gaza, where she got her degree in September 2023, and lives in Gaza City. She writes to make sense of the world she is living in, and to reach other people with her words.
Lama is the author of Rain was Once a Promise and Flowers Need Light, both illustrated by Lama Mohammed.
Rain Was Once a Promise
Rain once carried the promise of spring, of hope, of better days for Gaza. Now, it seeps through tents, bringing fragility and fatigue. Today, tomorrow, and forever, Gaza has changed, transformed by immeasurable pain. In this collection of 21 original poe…
Flowers Need Light
A collection of 19 personal essays spanning several years of the author’s life as she braved her fears and the realities that proved to be worse than anything imaginable. With normality having lost all meaning, sani…
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