aiman
@dumbsoftheart
poet, birdwatching
The most expensive rice in the world for some of the sickest people in Gaza who are getting minimal care, support here: chuffed.org/project/113222…. No medical supplies or medications have come into Gaza since March 2nd and now patients get no food for days. The Sameer Project team…
in december 2023 health and aid workers in gaza had to create a new acronym WCNSF (wounded child no surviving family). i thought nothing on earth could be more heartbreaking. that was 18 months ago and those children are being starved to death
An update from our contributing writer/guest editor Mohammed Zaqzouq, "Last night, I couldn't sleep until 1 a.m. because of unbearable hunger." gofundme.com/f/from-war-to-…
We spoke with mouths filled with dust. We sang, even with broken teeth. We prayed from fractured knees. And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain. -Alaa Alqaisi arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…
The Gaza health ministry just put out an urgent bulletin saying “unprecedented numbers of starving people of all ages are arriving at emergency rooms in a state of extreme exhaustion and fatigue” and are at risk of death. This is Israel’s unchecked policy of forced starvation.
Questions from Gaza's Children as compiled by staff from the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:
the novel as a form of storytelling feels a little fascist. not explaining
powerful poems
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
Going somewhere to read and then being on your phone the entire time
every day i am equally astonished and devastated by how life just keeps on going
read a book in the rain thursday. which is when it’s a thursday and you read a book while it rains
