Noor Arif

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A business administration student from Gaza who believes that education comes above everything. She works as a social media coordinator with the Gaza Great Minds School and as a writer. She uses her love for writing and social media to express what she lives through in her own way and to raise the voices of Gaza’s children. She has written for The Palestine Chronicle, Impulse, and We Are Not Numbers.

Noor is the author of Waiting for the Butterfly, illustrated by Sammi Wu.

Waiting for the Butterfly

Waiting for the Butterfly

An intimate pursuit for the will to keep going, despite heavy loss and destruction. Hope for transformation, for a better life, is as fragile as a butterfly’s wings and more fleeting. Gaza’s youngest generation suffers the loss of nearly five yea…

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