Hiba Abu Nada

Sep 10, 2024 | morningstaronline.co.uk | Hiba Abu Nada

We are in the Heights nowteachers, free of their crowded classrooms,their voices no longer shouting to be heard,new families without pain or sadness,journalists taking pictures of heavenwriting about the eternal love. All, all of them are from Gaza. There is a new Gaza in heavenwithout siegetaking shape now. Good night, GazaGaza night is dark apart from the glow of rockets,Quiet apart from the sound of the bombs,Terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer,Black apart from the light of the martyrs.

Mar 19, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Olivia Elias |Lena Khalaf Tuffaha |Nadya Siyam |Hiba Abu Nada

time has swallowed time night has swallowed day past future merged in a present of terror the boa constrictor encircling our lives has squeezed squeezed building after building hospital after hospital bookshop after bookshop body after body methodically & blindly demolish kill as widely as possible let the distressed birds fly away not wanting to know anything of this human world somewhere a little girl cries cries & asks if we collected all the tears would it wash away the soot resurrect the...

Jan 29, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Lena Khalaf Tuffaha |Hiba Abu Nada |Nadya Siyam |Alexander Aguayo

In August 1982, poet Mahmoud Darwish was besieged in Beirut, like thousands of his fellow exiled Palestinians, and facing increasingly violent Israeli bombardment of the city where he had made a home in exile. The shelling was relentless, from the air and from the sea, and eventually a land invasion followed. Water and electricity were cut off. The city was starving and almost no place was safe.

Dec 11, 2023 | chinesepen.org | Hiba Abu Nada

1. 我予你庇护在祈求祷告中。我佑邻居和尖塔以守护他们避开那导弹从那刻起是将军令直到变成一次突袭。我予你及小孩们庇护，那些小孩们改变火箭的航道在着陆之前带着他们的微笑。2. 我予你及小孩们庇护，小孩们现如窝里小鸡熟睡。他们不会在睡眠中向往梦。他们知道死亡潜伏在屋外。他们母亲的泪水现为鸽群跟着他们，尾随在后的每个棺材。3. 我予那父亲庇护，小孩们父亲把屋撑直当它在轰炸后倾斜时。他恳求那死亡时刻：“请发慈悲，饶我一时。为了他们，我已学会爱此生。请赐他们一死美如他们现时。”4. 我予你庇护免于伤害死亡，托庇于我们受围的荣耀，就在鲸鱼肚里。我们街道用每颗炸弹颂神。他们为清真寺和房屋祈祷。而每当北方开始轰炸时我们的祈愿在南方升起。5.

Dec 4, 2023 | arablit.org | Hiba Abu Nada |M. Lynx Qualey

Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian novelist, poet, educator, and nutritionist from Gaza. Her novel Oxygen is Not for the Deadwon the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She held a BA in Biochemistry and an MA in Clinical Nutrition from the Islamic University and Al-Azhar University in Gaza respectively, both of which have been destroyed by Israeli strikes. She was killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023 at 32 years old.