Mosab Abu Toha

Dec 31, 2024 | newyorker.com | Mosab Abu Toha

When I was a boy, I saw how a narrow street in the camp could turn into a sort of makeshift café. On a summer afternoon, someone would bring out a chair to escape the indoor heat and humidity. Another neighbor would join. Soon, a dozen people would be chatting in the street about work, soccer, food, border crossings, family. Each person would talk like a political analyst, a sports commentator, or a food critic. Children would sit on squares of cardboard cut from boxes, listening.

Dec 5, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Mosab Abu Toha |Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett

“In the particular is the universal,” said James Joyce. In Forest of Noise, the particular is the Israel-Hamas war and the suffering of the Gazans, as recorded by the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha. He told his harrowing story of capture by the Israel Defense Forces and eventual release in the New Yorker, and one of the poems in this collection retells that story.

Oct 22, 2024 | cruelsummerbookclub.substack.com | Debbie Nathan |Mosab Abu Toha |Ryu Spaeth |Jillian Anthony

Listen to the newest CSBC podcast ep: Design a creative routine that works. I talk about the life-changing magic of creative routines and how to create your own; encourage you to create your art NOW and not later; and actually say the sentence, ā€œI need to be almost sexually attracted to my notebooks.ā€Last week, I wrote about Fall Repotting Day, and how Iā€™m planting some new seeds. This Saturday, I did one more home chore Iā€™ve put off for a very long time.

Oct 16, 2024 | newspub.live | Mosab Abu Toha

Five days after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha fled his home in Gaza, along with his wife and their three young children. Two weeks later, their home was bombed, leaving it in rubble. “I say that I am houseless, but I am not homeless,” Abu Toha says. “I have a home to return to, which is Palestine.”Abu Toha and his family initially took shelter in a refugee camp.

Oct 11, 2024 | almendron.com | Mosab Abu Toha

Before war broke out in Gaza, I spent five years teaching English to middle schoolers there. Now I cannot imagine myself returning to teach at schools where students have spent the past year sitting and sleeping on classroom floors with their families, seeking refuge from a relentless assault. These children were not learning math or language. They were learning the names of Gazan neighborhoods as each was bombed. They were not practicing sports.