Hala Alyan

Oct 7, 2024 | halaalyan.substack.com | Hala Alyan

a year of slaughter. a year of bombing orphanages and schools and hospitals. a year of being told that we do not in fact see what we see. a year of but actually have you considered. a year of redactions and metaphors and new ways of saying the same thing. a year of what’s a synonym for killed, what’s a synonym for stop, what’s a synonym for relentless. a year of cagey journalists and elaborately fashioned headlines. a year of children begging for their mothers, their siblings, their lives.

Sep 12, 2024 | adastrastories.substack.com | Hala Alyan

[Dear readers: This issue contains discussions of homelessness, addiction, death, genocide, and more.]In an interview with Shondaland, author Nancy Jooyoun Kim said: “I was interested in exploring how [the American] dream intersects with the reality [of] exclusion and erasure…What are we sacrificing for this, and is the cost we’re paying too high?

Aug 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Hala Alyan

As a Palestinian American, I've watched with growing apprehension the recent rebranding and memeification of Kamala Harris: Look! Here's a woman that does jubilant dances, is firmly intelligent, has the same guffaw as your mother. It's endearing. It's refreshing. I'm not immune to the charms of American mythology. I spent much of my childhood in Midwestern suburbia, bred on romcoms and the glittering spectacle of professional wrestling.

Aug 26, 2024 | transcend.org | Hala Alyan

As we are saturated with horror, it gets normalized – and Israel’s assault continues unfettered. A Palestinian American poet on dehumanization. 19 Aug 2024 – Back in May, when the image of a decapitated child in Rafah started circulating, my friend texted: This is the image. This is the one. Now the world’s going to roar.

Aug 23, 2024 | eldiario.es | Hala Alyan

En mayo, cuando la imagen de un niño decapitado en Rafah empezó a difundirse en las redes, un amigo me envió un mensaje: Esta es la imagen definitiva. Sin lugar a dudas. Ahora el mundo va a exclamar basta ya. Para muchos de nosotros, esta creencia ha marcado nuestro día a día en los últimos meses: esperar la imagen definitiva que acabe con la complacencia y la complicidad internacional; esperar una imagen tan chocante que el mundo ya no pueda alinearse con Israel. Un niño amputado.