Rawan Yaghi

Oct 24, 2024 | lithub.com | Yousef M. Aljamal |Rawan Yaghi

This piece was originally published in the New York War Crimes. In the preface to his edited collection of short stories, Gaza Writes Back: Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, our professor Refaat Alareer, (or Mr. Refaat, as most of us called him) draws an image of a falling rocket with his words. The tip of the rocket, the charge or trigger, says, “we live, we live, we do.” Refaat found his calling in storytelling.