Shahd Alnaouq
A Palestinian writer and translator from Gaza. She studies English literature and translation at the Islamic University of Gaza, writing through the noise of war and turning survival into language.
“Should I introduce myself? Perhaps I should. But what can I say except: I am Gazan.? Gazan by blood, by language, by time, by loss, and by love. I write to you from the core of Gaza’s midnight, where bombs fall louder than sleep, where neighbors vanish, and where the only witness left to my heart is paper. I do not know if these poems will ever reach you, or if I will be carried away as a martyr before finishing them. But if you are reading this, then you hold not just poems, but fragments of a beating heart that refuses to be silenced.
Dearest readers—you are our last hope. Do not let the world blind you. Be seekers of truth. Be defenders of what is human, wherever life and fate may cast you.”—Shahd Alnaouq, excerpt from the introduction of Our Pulse Against the Drones.
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