Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha (courtesy of The New School).

9 MAY 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably 9 MAY 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
The former Beit Lahia resident won a Pulitzer on Monday for a series of essays he published in the New Yorker in 2023 and 2024, recounting his experiences as he and his family struggled to survive.

Jordan Elgrably

 

Back in the summer of 2021, we were working on a special issue devoted to Gaza. You’ll remember that Gaza had already been subjected to withering military assaults by Israel in 2008-2009 and in 2014 (Operation Protective Edge), which wrought a great deal of destruction and death. Mosab Abu Toha was an aspiring writer, who, like most Gazan youth had lived through those crises. In 2014, he graduated from the now destroyed Islamic University of Gaza, and participated in We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led Palestinian initiative that until today provides training in English to developing storyteller–journalists, allowing them a better chance of reaching the world beyond Gaza’s closed borders. Greatly inspired and partly led by the late scholar and poet Dr. Refaat Alareer, WANN has launched the careers of a number of  writers from Gaza who have gone on to make a name for themselves on the international stage, including Shahd Safi, who has written for the Los Angeles Times and Mondoweiss, and Hind Khoudary, one of the most prominent young journalists left in Gaza, who has been tirelessly documenting the genocide for Al-Jazeera, among other media outlets.

Mosab, a lover and collector of books, was committed to building his life in Gaza and contributing to its cultural scene.  He created the Edward Said Memorial Library, stocking it with English-language books and he wrote honest poems about his life in a second language. The work was so good that he caught the attention of poet-translator Ammiel Alcalay, who then strongly recommended him to TMR.

And so, in July 2021, in TMR 11 • GAZA, we ran four poems by Mosab, which later appeared in his first collection, Things You May Find in My Ear, published by City Lights in 2022. Less than a year later came Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the next day, a vengeful onslaught by Israel on the entirety of the Gaza Strip. Once again, the Palestinians of Gaza were forced into mobilizing to survive yet another Israeli assault. Like so many of his friends, colleagues and readers abroad, we found ourselves frantically following Mosab’s social media dispatches as he chronicled, in both English and Arabic, the extraordinary terrors and daily indignities of Israel’s genocidal war.

In the winter of 2023, Israeli bombs, likely manufactured in and supplied to Israel by the United States, destroyed the four-story flat where Mosab and his extended family had been living. Everyone dispersed, and Mosab and his wife Maram began considering the possibility of leaving Gaza. “When Maram and I talk about leaving,”  he wrote in his first New Yorker essay published in December of 2023, “we understand that the decision is not only about us. It is about our three children. In Gaza, a child is not really a child. Our eight-year-old son, Yazzan, has been talking about fetching his toys from the ruins of our house. He should be learning how to draw, how to play soccer, how to take a family photo. Instead, he is learning how to hide when bombs fall.”

Mosab Abu Toha presents his two poetry collections, before cancelling his "Forest of Noise" book tour earlier this year (photo courtesy Soho Books).
Mosab presents his two poetry collections, before cancelling his Forest of Noise book tour earlier this year (photo courtesy Soho Books).

The family decided to head to Cairo. On the way to the Rafah border crossing with his wife and children, Mosab was pulled out of the line at a checkpoint, detained and beaten by the Israeli army.  He was already known enough by then that news of his kidnapping led to an avalanche of protests about his kidnapping, and it is this perhaps that earned his subsequent release. From Cairo, the family went on to the US, where Mosab continued writing about life in Gaza for the New Yorker and assembling his second collection of poems. Forest of Noise was published to much acclaim by Knopf last October.

While Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists were already facing repression under the Biden administration, with student protesters on campuses across the country hounded by administrators and often rounded up and arrested by local authorities, the situation became exponentially more dire after the new American administration came to power in January 2025. Following the arrest of recent Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil by ICE, Mosab found himself on a list among a number of other activists, compiled by the extremist Zionist group Betar to identify “undesirables” for ICE deportations. Fearing for his safety, Mosab made the heartrending decision to cancel his Forest of Noise book tour, feeling it safer to stay close to home, with his family.

Just before the administrative chaos was unleashed in full, however, we had the good fortune to be able to include Mosab in a presentation of our book Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader at NYU on the 5th of February, in a panel that included me and my co-editor Malu Halasa, as well as fellow contributor and TMR senior editor Lina Mounzer, and NYU moderator Mohamad Bazzi. Mosab read his poems to a standing ovation, warmly thronged by readers and admirers in the aftermath of the panel.


SUMUD Malu Halasa-Mosab Abu Toha - Lina Mounzer - Jordan Elgrably Feb 5 2025 NYU photo Shireen Saad 1000
Malu Halasa, Mosab Abu Toha, Lina Mounzer, and Jordan Elgrably, Feb. 5, 2025 at NYU (photo Shireen Saad).

While extremist pro-Israel groups continue to focus their attention on any and all pro-Palestinian voices, hoping to intimidate them into silence, Mosab insists on continuing to make his voice heard in US and international fora. His poetry, essays and activism compel us to face the horrors Gaza is being made to endure, including forced starvation and massacres by the IDF. He also insists on staying in the US — after having already made the heartbreaking decision to flee home once, he and his family are reluctant to tear out the roots they’ve begun to grow in this new place. They are already en route to citizenship and despite an openly hostile administration, the enormous amount of solidarity and support for Gaza and for the Palestinian cause in general among so many in the US is further encouragement to remain and fight from within the empire that is funding, arming and providing political support and cover for the Zionist state.

Having known so much war over the course of his young lifetime, Mosab has in effect become one of the most cogent and moving voices for Gazans struggling to survive Israel’s savage punishment of the Palestinian population. Israel has broken international law time and again by bombing into oblivion hospitals, schools, universities and houses of worship, killing men, women and children indiscriminately. The rules of war as described in the Geneva Conventions have been ignored by Israel and abused, with impunity. More than 50,000 people are dead, with over 100,000 wounded. In fact, according to the Lancet, the numbers are probably much higher.

Mosab Abu Toha’s 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary was awarded for his series of essays on Gaza published over the course of 2023-2024 in the New Yorker. In celebrating his win on X, Mosab quoted Dr. Refaat Alareer: “Let it bring hope / Let it be a tale.” While Alareer was tragically murdered by Israel, his proteges from We Are Not Numbers continue his legacy, fulfilling the project’s fundamental mission of allowing Gaza’s writers to represent themselves and their homeland in their own words. On behalf of The Markaz Review and our valued members and readers, we congratulate Mosab Abu Toha on his Pulitzer win. The prize recognizes the supreme timeliness and urgency of Mosab’s words, and reminds us that we are all implicated in this urgent, historical moment as a premeditated genocide unfolds before the eyes of the entire world. Nothing could be a starker illustration of the fact that none of us are free until Palestine and Palestinians are free.

Mosab Abu Toha

PALESTINE A–Z*

A

An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when manmade
lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the
sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes.

“Am” is the linking verb that follows “I” in the present tense when
I am no longer present, when I’m shattered.

B

A book that doesn’t mention my language or my country, and
has maps of every place except for my birthplace, as if I were an
illegitimate child on Mother Earth.

Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn
into the ground by bullets.

C

Gaza is a city where tourists gather to take photos next to destroyed
buildings or graveyards.

A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly
freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen.

D

Dar means house. My grandparents left their house behind in
1948 near Yaffa beach. A tree my father told me about stood in
the front yard.

Dreams of children and their parents, of listening to songs, or
watching plays at Al-Mishal Cultural Center. Israel destroyed it in
August 2018. I hate August. But plays are still performed in Gaza.
Gaza is the stage.

E

An email account that I used when the power was on, the email
through which I smelled overseas air. I used it first to send photos
to my aunt in Jordan, who we last saw in 2000.

How easy it becomes to recognize what kind of aircraft it is: an
F-16, helicopter, or a drone? What kind of a bullet it was: from a
gunboat, an M-16, a tank, or an Apache? It’s all about the sound.

F

Friends from school, from the neighborhood, from childhood. The
books in my living room in Gaza, the poems in my notebooks, still
lonely. The three friends I lost to the 2014 onslaught: Ezzat, Ammar,
and Ismael. Ezzat was born in Algeria, Ammar in Jordan, Ismael on
a farm. We buried them all under the cold ground.

Fish in our sea that the fishermen cannot catch because the Israeli
gunboats care about sea life in the Mediterranean. They once fished
at the Gaza beach with a barrage of shells, and Huda Ghalia lost
her father, stepmother, and five siblings in June 2006. I walked
in their funeral procession to the cemetery. Blood was still fresh
on their clothes. They had poured out some perfume to cover the
stench. Over time my hate for perfume grew intense.

G

How are you, Mosab? I’m good. I hate this word. It has no meaning
to me. Your English is good, Mosab! Thanks.

When I was asked to fill out a form for my J-1 visa application,
my country, Palestine, was not on the list. But lucky for me, my
gender was.

H

If a helicopter stops in the sky over Gaza, we know it’s going to
shoot a rocket. It doesn’t see if a target is close to children playing
marbles or soccer in the street.

My friend Elise told me hey is a slang word and shouldn’t be used.
“English teachers would faint at what goes on today in written
English,” she said.

I

Images on the walls of buildings, a child who was shot by an
Israeli sniper, or killed during an air raid en route to school. Her
picture was placed on her desk at school. Her picture stares at the
blackboard, while the air sits in her chair.

I wake up ill when gloomy ideas about what might’ve happened to
me come in my dreams, what if I had stopped for a few seconds at
the window when a bullet from nowhere ripped through the glass.

J

Once I sent a picture of my desk in Gaza to a friend in the United
States. I wanted to show that I was fine. On the desk were some
books, my laptop, and a glass of strawberry juice.

When I sent that photo, I was jobless. About 47 percent of people in
Gaza have no work. But while writing these lines, I’m trying to
start a literary magazine. I still don’t know what to name it.

K

My grandfather kept the key to his house in Yaffa in 1948. He
thought they would return in a few days. His name was Hasan.
The house was destroyed. Others built a new one in its place.
Hasan died in Gaza in 1986. The key has rusted but still exists
somewhere, longing for the old wooden door.

In Gaza you don’t know what you’re guilty of. It feels like living
in a Kafka novel.

L

I speak Arabic and English, but I don’t know in what language my
fate is written. I’m not sure if that would change anything.

Light is the opposite of heavy or dark. In Gaza, when the electricity
is cut off, we turn on the lights, even in broad daylight. That way,
we know when the power’s back.

M

Marhaba means hi or welcome. We say Marhaba to everyone we
see. It’s like a warm hug. We don’t use it, however, when soldiers
or their bullets or bombs visit us. Such guests not only leave their
shit, but also take everything we have.

My dad used to prepare milk for us with some qirshalah before
school. I was in third grade, and my mother was at hospital taking
care of my brother. My brother died in 2016.

N

In 2014, about 2,139 people were killed, 579 of them were
children, around 11,100 were children, around 13,000 buildings.
were destroyed. I lost three friends. But it’s not about numbers. Even
years, they are not numbers.

A nail is used to join two pieces of wood or to hang things on
the wall. In 2009, the Israelis targeted an ambulance with a nail
bomb near my house. Some were killed. I saw many nails on our
neighbor’s newly painted wall.

O

Yaffa is known around the world for its oranges. My grandmother,
Khadra, tried to take some oranges with her in 1948, but the
shelling was heavy. The oranges fell on the ground, the earth drank
their juice. It was sweet, I’m sure.

In Gaza, we had a clay oven that our neighbor Muneer built for us.
When my mother wanted to bake, I fed it wood stems or cardboard
to heat it for the bread. The woody stems were made from dried
plants: pepper, eggplant, and cornstalks.

P

A poem is not just words placed on a line. It’s a cloth. Mahmoud
Darwish wanted to build his home, his exile, from all the words
in the world. I weave my poems with my veins. I want to build a
poem like a solid home, but hopefully not with my bones.

On July 23, 2014, a friend called and said, “Ezzat was killed.” I
asked which Ezzat. “Ezzat, your friend.” My phone slipped from
my hand, and I began to run, not knowing where.

What’s your name? Mosab. Where are you from? Palestine. What’s
your mother tongue? Arabic, but she’s sick. What’s the color of
your skin? There is not enough light to help me see.

Q

We were watching a soccer match. Comments and shouts filled the
room. The power was cut off, and everything became quiet. We
could hear our breathing in the dark.

Al-Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem. I have never been to al-Quds. It’s
around sixty miles from Gaza. People who live 5,000 miles away can
move there, while I cannot even visit.

R

I was born in November. My mother told me she was walking on the
beach with my father. It turned stormy and began to rain. My mother
felt pain, and an hour later, she gave birth to me. I love the rain and the
sea, the last two things I heard before I came into this horrible world.

S

I like to go to the beach and watch the sun as it sinks into the sea.
She’s going to shine on nicer places, I think to myself.

My son’s name is Yazzan. He was born in 2015, or a year after the
2014 war. This is how we date things. Once he saw a swarm of
clouds. He shouted, “Dad, some bombs. Watch out!” He thought
the clouds were bomb smoke. Even nature confuses us.

T

In summer, I drink tea with mint. In winter, I add dried sage.
Anyone who visits, even if it’s a neighbor knocking at the door to
ask about what day or date it is, I offer them tea. Offering tea is
like saying Marhaba.

They once said Palestine will be free tomorrow. When is tomorrow?
What is freedom? How long does it last?

U

It wasn’t raining that day, but I took my umbrella anyway. When
an F-16 flew over the town, I opened my umbrella to hide. Kids
thought I was a clown.

In August 2014, Israel bombed my university’s administration
building. The English department was turned into a ruin. My
graduation ceremony got postponed. Families of the dead attended,
to receive not a degree, but a portrait of their child.

V

When we moved from Cambridge to Syracuse, I looked out the
window of the U-Haul van. What a huge country America is,
I thought. Why did Zionists occupy Palestine and still build
settlements and kill us in Gaza and the West Bank? Why don’t
they live here in America? Why can’t we come here to live and
work? My friend heard me. He was from Ireland. We both loved
the Liverpool football club.

In Gaza, you can find a man planting a rose in the hollow space of
an unexploded tank shell, using it as a vase.

W

One day, we were sleeping in our house. A bomb fell on a nearby
farm at 6 a.m., like an alarm clock waking us up early for school.

In August 2014 after the fifty-one days of Israeli onslaught, the walls in
my room had more windows than when I left, windows that would
no longer close. Winter was harsh on us.

X

When I was wounded in January 2009, I was sixteen. I was taken to
hospital and x-rayed for the first time. There were two pieces of
shrapnel in my body. One in my neck, another in my forehead. Seven
months later, I had my first surgery to remove them. I was still a child.

For Christmas, a friend gave the kids a xylophone. It had one wooden
row. The bars were of different lengths and colors, red, yellow, green,
blue, purple, and white. The kids showed it to their grandparents back
in Gaza, whose eyes danced while the kids smiled.

Y

Yaffa is my daughter’s name. I put my ears near her mouth when
she speaks, and I hear Yaffa’s sea, waves lapping against the
shore. I look in her eyes, and I see my grandparents’ footsteps still
imprinted on the sand.

How did you leave Gaza? Do you plan to return? You should stay
in the U.S. You mustn’t think of going back to Gaza. Things people
say to me.

Z

When I was in the fifth grade, our science teacher wanted us to visit
a zoo, to see the animals, listen to their sounds, watch how they
walk and sleep. When I went there, they were bored, gave me their
back. They lived in cages in a caged place.

We use a zero article with most proper nouns. My name and that
of my country have an extra zero in front, like when you call
overseas. But we have been pulled down beneath the seas, do you
see what I mean?


* “Palestine A-Z” is republished here from Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader, co-edited by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably, published by Seven Stories Press 2025. The poem first appeared in Mosab Abu Toha’s Things You May Find in My Ear: Poems From Gaza (City Lights 2022). Copyright © 2022 Mosab Abu Toha. 

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Should a Climate-Destroying Dictatorship Host a Climate-Saving Conference?
Books

November World Picks from the Editors

25 OCTOBER 2024 • By TMR
November World Picks from the Editors
Book Reviews

The Hybrid—The Case of Michael Vatikiotis

18 OCTOBER 2024 • By Rana Haddad
The Hybrid—The Case of Michael Vatikiotis
Essays

Palestine, the Land of Grapes and Wine

11 OCTOBER 2024 • By Fadi Kattan, Anna Patrowicz
Palestine, the Land of Grapes and Wine
Editorial

A Year of War Without End

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
A Year of War Without End
Art

Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Ziad Suidan
Witnessing Catastrophe: a Painter in Lebanon
Art

Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Visuals and Voices: Palestine Will Not Be a Palimpsest
Featured article

Censorship and Cancellation Fail to Camouflage the Ugly Truth

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Censorship and Cancellation Fail to Camouflage the Ugly Truth
Essays

Shamrocks & Watermelons: Palestine Politics in Belfast

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Stuart Bailie
Shamrocks & Watermelons: Palestine Politics in Belfast
Essays

Depictions of Genocide: The Un-Imaginable Visibility of Extermination

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Viola Shafik
Depictions of Genocide: The Un-Imaginable Visibility of Extermination
Opinion

Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed
Art

Activism in the Landscape: Environmental Arts & Resistance in Palestine

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Katie Logan
Activism in the Landscape: Environmental Arts & Resistance in Palestine
Poetry

Poems by Nasser Rabah, Amanee Izhaq and Mai Al-Nakib

4 OCTOBER 2024 • By Nasser Rabah, Amanee Izhaq, Mai Al-Nakib, Wiam El-Tamami
Poems by Nasser Rabah, Amanee Izhaq and Mai Al-Nakib
Book Reviews

Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide by Atif Abu Saif

20 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Selma Dabbagh
<em>Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide</em> by Atif Abu Saif
Art & Photography

Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Featured Artists: “Barred From Home”
Book Reviews

Egypt’s Gatekeeper—President or Despot?

6 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By Elias Feroz
Egypt’s Gatekeeper—President or Despot?
Fiction

“Fragments from a Gaza Nightmare”—fiction from Sama Hassan

30 AUGUST 2024 • By Sama Hassan, Rana Asfour
“Fragments from a Gaza Nightmare”—fiction from Sama Hassan
Essays

Beyond Rubble—Cultural Heritage and Healing After Disaster

23 AUGUST 2024 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Beyond Rubble—Cultural Heritage and Healing After Disaster
Books

“Kill the Music”—an excerpt from a new novel by Badar Salem

16 AUGUST 2024 • By Badar Salem
“Kill the Music”—an excerpt from a new novel by Badar Salem
Film

World Picks from the Editors: AUGUST

2 AUGUST 2024 • By TMR
World Picks from the Editors: AUGUST
Art & Photography

World Picks from the Editors: July 15 — August 2

12 JULY 2024 • By TMR
World Picks from the Editors: July 15 — August 2
Fiction

“The Cockroaches”—flash fiction

5 JULY 2024 • By Stanko Uyi Srsen
“The Cockroaches”—flash fiction
Fiction

“Deferred Sorrow”—fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali

5 JULY 2024 • By Haidar Al Ghazali, Rana Asfour
“Deferred Sorrow”—fiction from Haidar Al Ghazali
Book Reviews

Is Amin Maalouf’s Latest Novel, On the Isle of Antioch, a Parody?

14 JUNE 2024 • By Farah-Silvana Kanaan
Is Amin Maalouf’s Latest Novel, <em>On the Isle of Antioch</em>, a Parody?
Centerpiece

Dare Not Speak—a One-Act Play

7 JUNE 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
<em>Dare Not Speak</em>—a One-Act Play
Books

Palestine, Political Theatre & the Performance of Queer Solidarity in Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love

7 JUNE 2024 • By Saleem Haddad
Palestine, Political Theatre & the Performance of Queer Solidarity in Jean Genet’s <em>Prisoner of Love</em>
Essays

A Small Kernel of Human Kindness: Some Notes on Solidarity and Resistance

24 MAY 2024 • By Nancy Kricorian
A Small Kernel of Human Kindness: Some Notes on Solidarity and Resistance
Essays

Postscript: Disrupting the Colonial Gaze—Gaza and Israel after October 7th

17 MAY 2024 • By Sara Roy, Ivar Ekeland
Postscript: Disrupting the Colonial Gaze—Gaza and Israel after October 7th
Art

Demarcations of Identity: Rushdi Anwar

10 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Demarcations of Identity: Rushdi Anwar
Art

This Year in Venice, it’s the “Palestine Biennale”

10 MAY 2024 • By Hadani Ditmars
This Year in Venice, it’s the “Palestine Biennale”
Editorial

Why FORGETTING?

3 MAY 2024 • By Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably
Why FORGETTING?
Centerpiece

Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting

3 MAY 2024 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Memory Archive: Between Remembering and Forgetting
Essays

The Elephant in the Box

3 MAY 2024 • By Asmaa Elgamal
The Elephant in the Box
Art & Photography

Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines

3 MAY 2024 • By Gabriel Polley
Not Forgotten, Not (All) Erased: Palestine’s Sacred Shrines
Book Reviews

Palestinian Culture, Under Assault, Celebrated in New Cookbook

3 MAY 2024 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Palestinian Culture, Under Assault, Celebrated in New Cookbook
Art

Malak Mattar: No Words, Only Scenes of Ruin

26 APRIL 2024 • By Nadine Nour el Din
Malak Mattar: No Words, Only Scenes of Ruin
Opinion

Equating Critique of Israel with Antisemitism, US Academics are Being Silenced

12 APRIL 2024 • By Maura Finkelstein
Equating Critique of Israel with Antisemitism, US Academics are Being Silenced
Opinion

Censorship over Gaza and Palestine Roils the Arts Community

12 APRIL 2024 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Censorship over Gaza and Palestine Roils the Arts Community
Art

Past Disquiet at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris

1 APRIL 2024 • By Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti
<em>Past Disquiet</em> at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
Essays

Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

1 APRIL 2024 • By Sasha Moujaes, Jordan Elgrably
Undoing Colonial Geographies from Paris with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Book Reviews

Fady Joudah’s […] Dares Us to Listen to Palestinian Words—and Silences

25 MARCH 2024 • By Eman Quotah
Fady Joudah’s <em>[…]</em> Dares Us to Listen to Palestinian Words—and Silences
Art & Photography

Will Artists Against Genocide Boycott the Venice Biennale?

18 MARCH 2024 • By Hadani Ditmars
Will Artists Against Genocide Boycott the Venice Biennale?
Editorial

Why “Burn It all Down”?

3 MARCH 2024 • By Lina Mounzer
Why “Burn It all Down”?
Essays

The Time of Monsters

3 MARCH 2024 • By Layla AlAmmar
The Time of Monsters
Books

Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking

3 MARCH 2024 • By Rana Asfour
Four Books to Revolutionize Your Thinking
Fiction

“The Map of a Genocide Victim”—fiction from Faris Lounis

3 MARCH 2024 • By Faris Lounis, Jordan Elgrably
“The Map of a Genocide Victim”—fiction from Faris Lounis
Columns

Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”

3 MARCH 2024 • By Amal Ghandour
Genocide: “That bell can’t be unrung. That thought can’t be unthunk.”
Essays

The Story of the Keffiyeh

3 MARCH 2024 • By Rajrupa Das
The Story of the Keffiyeh
Essays

Messages from Gaza Now / 5

26 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Hossam Madhoun
Messages from Gaza Now / 5
Weekly

World Picks from the Editors: Feb 23 — Mar 7

23 FEBRUARY 2024 • By TMR
World Picks from the Editors: Feb 23 — Mar 7
Poetry

“WE” and “4978 and One Nights” by Ghayath Almadhoun

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Ghayath Al Madhoun
“WE” and “4978 and One Nights” by Ghayath Almadhoun
Editorial

Shoot That Poison Arrow to My Heart: The LSD Editorial

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Malu Halasa
Shoot That Poison Arrow to My Heart: The LSD Editorial
Art & Photography

The Body, Intimacy and Technology in the Middle East

4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By Naima Morelli
The Body, Intimacy and Technology in the Middle East
Columns

Driving in Palestine Now is More Dangerous Than Ever

29 JANUARY 2024 • By TMR
Driving in Palestine Now is More Dangerous Than Ever
Featured article

Israel-Palestine: Peace Under Occupation?

29 JANUARY 2024 • By Laëtitia Soula
Israel-Palestine: Peace Under Occupation?
Essays

Messages from Gaza Now /4

22 JANUARY 2024 • By Hossam Madhoun
Messages from Gaza Now /4
Books

Illuminated Reading for 2024: Our Anticipated Titles

22 JANUARY 2024 • By TMR
Illuminated Reading for 2024: Our Anticipated Titles
Fiction

“New Reasons”—a short story by Samira Azzam

15 JANUARY 2024 • By Samira Azzam, Ranya Abdelrahman
“New Reasons”—a short story by Samira Azzam
Art

Palestinian Artists

12 JANUARY 2024 • By TMR
Palestinian Artists
Essays

Messages from Gaza Now / 3

8 JANUARY 2024 • By Hossam Madhoun
Messages from Gaza Now / 3
Essays

Gaza Sunbirds: the Palestinian Para-Cyclists Who Won’t Quit

25 DECEMBER 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Gaza Sunbirds: the Palestinian Para-Cyclists Who Won’t Quit
Essays

Jesus Was Palestinian, But Bethlehem Suspends Christmas

25 DECEMBER 2023 • By Ahmed Twaij
Jesus Was Palestinian, But Bethlehem Suspends Christmas
Books

Inside Hamas: From Resistance to Regime

25 DECEMBER 2023 • By Paola Caridi
Inside <em>Hamas: From Resistance to Regime</em>
Columns

Messages from Gaza Now / 2

18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
Messages from Gaza Now / 2
Music

We Will Sing Until the Pain Goes Away—a Palestinian Playlist

18 DECEMBER 2023 • By Brianna Halasa
We Will Sing Until the Pain Goes Away—a Palestinian Playlist
Columns

Messages From Gaza Now

11 DECEMBER 2023 • By Hossam Madhoun
Messages From Gaza Now
Featured excerpt

The Palestine Laboratory and Gaza: An Excerpt

4 DECEMBER 2023 • By Antony Loewenstein
<em>The Palestine Laboratory</em> and Gaza: An Excerpt
Editorial

Why Endings & Beginnings?

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Jordan Elgrably
Why Endings & Beginnings?
Fiction

“I, Hanan”—a Gazan tale of survival by Joumana Haddad

3 DECEMBER 2023 • By Joumana Haddad
“I, Hanan”—a Gazan tale of survival by Joumana Haddad
Opinion

Gaza vs. Mosul from a Medical and Humanitarian Standpoint

27 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Ahmed Twaij
Gaza vs. Mosul from a Medical and Humanitarian Standpoint
Opinion

What’s in a Ceasefire?

20 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Adrian Kreutz, Enzo Rossi, Lillian Robb
What’s in a Ceasefire?
Opinion

Beautiful October 7th Art Belies the Horrors of War

13 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Mark LeVine
Beautiful October 7th Art Belies the Horrors of War
Arabic

Poet Ahmad Almallah

9 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Ahmad Almallah
Poet Ahmad Almallah
Opinion

Palestine’s Pen against Israel’s Swords of Injustice

6 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Mai Al-Nakib
Palestine’s Pen against Israel’s Swords of Injustice
Books

Domicide—War on the City

5 NOVEMBER 2023 • By Ammar Azzouz
<em>Domicide</em>—War on the City
Essays

On Fathers, Daughters and the Genocide in Gaza 

30 OCTOBER 2023 • By Deema K Shehabi
On Fathers, Daughters and the Genocide in Gaza 
Islam

October 7 and the First Days of the War

23 OCTOBER 2023 • By Robin Yassin-Kassab
October 7 and the First Days of the War
Editorial

Palestine and the Unspeakable

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Lina Mounzer
Palestine and the Unspeakable
Art

The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Rasha Al Jundi
The Ongoing Nakba—Rasha Al-Jundi’s Embroidery Series
Art

Vera Tamari’s Lifetime of Palestinian Art

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Taline Voskeritchian
Vera Tamari’s Lifetime of Palestinian Art
Book Reviews

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

16 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dalia Hatuqa
<em>A Day in the Life of Abed Salama</em>: A Palestine Story
Weekly

World Picks from the Editors, Oct 13 — Oct 27, 2023

12 OCTOBER 2023 • By TMR
World Picks from the Editors, Oct 13 — Oct 27, 2023
Poetry

Home: New Arabic Poems in Translation

11 OCTOBER 2023 • By Sarah Coolidge
<em>Home</em>: New Arabic Poems in Translation
Books

Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 

9 OCTOBER 2023 • By Layla AlAmmar
Edward Said: Writing in the Service of Life 
Books

Fairouz: The Peacemaker and Champion of Palestine

1 OCTOBER 2023 • By Dima Issa
Fairouz: The Peacemaker and Champion of Palestine
Book Reviews

Saqi’s Revenant: Sahar Khalifeh’s Classic Nablus Novel Wild Thorns

25 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By Noshin Bokth
Saqi’s Revenant: Sahar Khalifeh’s Classic Nablus Novel <em>Wild Thorns</em>
Book Reviews

Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts is a Haunting Memoir

28 AUGUST 2023 • By Thérèse Soukar Chehade
Laila Halaby’s <em>The Weight of Ghosts</em> is a Haunting Memoir
Book Reviews

What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?

21 AUGUST 2023 • By Jonathan Ofir
What’s the Solution for Jews and Palestine in the Face of Apartheid Zionism?
Book Reviews

Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s Imagining Palestine

7 AUGUST 2023 • By Ilan Pappé
Ilan Pappé on Tahrir Hamdi’s <em> Imagining Palestine</em>
Art

What Palestine Brings to the World—a Major Paris Exhibition

31 JULY 2023 • By Sasha Moujaes
<em>What Palestine Brings to the World</em>—a Major Paris Exhibition
Opinion

The End of the Palestinian State? Jenin Is Only the Beginning

10 JULY 2023 • By Yousef M. Aljamal
The End of the Palestinian State? Jenin Is Only the Beginning
Fiction

Tears from a Glass Eye—a story by Samira Azzam

2 JULY 2023 • By Samira Azzam, Ranya Abdelrahman
Tears from a Glass Eye—a story by Samira Azzam
Columns

The Rite of Flooding: When the Land Speaks

19 JUNE 2023 • By Bint Mbareh
The Rite of Flooding: When the Land Speaks
Arabic

Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love

4 JUNE 2023 • By Hassan Abdulrazzak
Arab Theatre Grapples With Climate Change, Borders, War & Love
Essays

Alien Entities in the Desert

4 JUNE 2023 • By Dror Shohet
Alien Entities in the Desert
Featured Artist

Nasrin Abu Baker: The Markaz Review Featured Artist, June 2023

4 JUNE 2023 • By TMR
Nasrin Abu Baker: The Markaz Review Featured Artist, June 2023
Book Reviews

How Bethlehem Evolved From Jerusalem’s Sleepy Backwater to a Global Town

15 MAY 2023 • By Karim Kattan
How Bethlehem Evolved From Jerusalem’s Sleepy Backwater to a Global Town
TMR Conversations

TMR CONVERSATIONS: Amal Ghandour Interviews Raja Shehadeh

11 MAY 2023 • By Amal Ghandour, Raja Shehadeh
TMR CONVERSATIONS: Amal Ghandour Interviews Raja Shehadeh
Film Reviews

Yallah Gaza! Presents the Case for Gazan Humanity

10 APRIL 2023 • By Karim Goury
<em>Yallah Gaza!</em> Presents the Case for Gazan Humanity
Book Reviews

In Search of Fathers: Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Memoir

13 MARCH 2023 • By Amal Ghandour
In Search of Fathers: Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Memoir
Centerpiece

Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration

5 MARCH 2023 • By Malu Halasa
Broken Home: Britain in the Time of Migration
Essays

More Photographs Taken From The Pocket of a Dead Arab

5 MARCH 2023 • By Saeed Taji Farouky
More Photographs Taken From The Pocket of a Dead Arab
Essays

Home Under Siege: a Palestine Photo Essay

5 MARCH 2023 • By Anam Raheem
Home Under Siege: a Palestine Photo Essay
Columns

Sudden Journeys: Deluge at Wadi Feynan

6 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: Deluge at Wadi Feynan
TV Review

Palestinian Territories Under Siege But Season 4 of Fauda Goes to Brussels and Beirut Instead

6 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Brett Kline
Palestinian Territories Under Siege But Season 4 of <em>Fauda</em> Goes to Brussels and Beirut Instead
Art

The Creative Resistance in Palestinian Art

26 DECEMBER 2022 • By Malu Halasa
The Creative Resistance in Palestinian Art
Art

Art World Picks: Albraehe, Kerem Yavuz, Zeghidour, Amer & Tatah

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By TMR
Art

Museums in Exile—MO.CO’s show for Chile, Sarajevo & Palestine

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Museums in Exile—MO.CO’s show for Chile, Sarajevo & Palestine
Art

Where is the Palestinian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art?

12 DECEMBER 2022 • By Nora Ounnas Leroy
Where is the Palestinian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art?
Columns

Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 3

5 DECEMBER 2022 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 3
Book Reviews

Fida Jiryis on Palestine in Stranger in My Own Land

28 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Diana Buttu
Fida Jiryis on Palestine in <em>Stranger in My Own Land</em>
Fiction

“Eleazar”—a short story by Karim Kattan

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By Karim Kattan
“Eleazar”—a short story by Karim Kattan
Opinion

Fragile Freedom, Fragile States in the Muslim World

24 OCTOBER 2022 • By I. Rida Mahmood
Fragile Freedom, Fragile States in the Muslim World
Interviews

Interview with Ahed Tamimi, an Icon of the Palestinian Resistance

15 OCTOBER 2022 • By Nora Lester Murad
Interview with Ahed Tamimi, an Icon of the Palestinian Resistance
Columns

Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 1

26 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: Israel’s Intimate Separations—Part 1
Columns

Phoneless in Filthy Berlin

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Maisan Hamdan, Rana Asfour
Phoneless in Filthy Berlin
Art & Photography

Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project

15 SEPTEMBER 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Photographer Mohamed Badarne (Palestine) and his U48 Project
Editorial

Editorial: Is the World Driving Us Mad?

15 JULY 2022 • By TMR
Editorial: Is the World Driving Us Mad?
Book Reviews

A Poet and Librarian Catalogs Life in Gaza

20 JUNE 2022 • By Eman Quotah
A Poet and Librarian Catalogs Life in Gaza
Art & Photography

Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine

15 JUNE 2022 • By TMR
Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine
Essays

Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Sulafa Zidani
Sulafa Zidani: “Three Buses and the Rhythm of Remembering”
Film

Saeed Taji Farouky: “Strange Cities Are Familiar”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Saeed Taji Farouky
Saeed Taji Farouky: “Strange Cities Are Familiar”
Art & Photography

Steve Sabella: Excerpts from “The Parachute Paradox”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Steve Sabella
Steve Sabella: Excerpts from “The Parachute Paradox”
Fiction

Selma Dabbagh: “Trash”

15 JUNE 2022 • By Selma Dabbagh
Selma Dabbagh: “Trash”
Book Reviews

Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”

16 MAY 2022 • By Nora Lester Murad
Fragmented Love in Alison Glick’s “The Other End of the Sea”
Opinion

Palestinians and Israelis Will Commemorate the Nakba Together

25 APRIL 2022 • By Rana Salman, Yonatan Gher
Palestinians and Israelis Will Commemorate the Nakba Together
Latest Reviews

Food in Palestine: Five Videos From Nasser Atta

15 APRIL 2022 • By Nasser Atta
Food in Palestine: Five Videos From Nasser Atta
Columns

Green Almonds in Ramallah

15 APRIL 2022 • By Wafa Shami
Green Almonds in Ramallah
Columns

Libyan, Palestinian and Syrian Family Dinners in London

15 APRIL 2022 • By Layla Maghribi
Libyan, Palestinian and Syrian Family Dinners in London
Film Reviews

Palestine in Pieces: Hany Abu-Assad’s Huda’s Salon

21 MARCH 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
Palestine in Pieces: Hany Abu-Assad’s <em>Huda’s Salon</em>
Opinion

U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine

21 MARCH 2022 • By Yossi Khen, Jeff Warner
U.S. Sanctions Russia for its Invasion of Ukraine; Now Sanction Israel for its Occupation of Palestine
Essays

Mariupol, Ukraine and the Crime of Hospital Bombing

17 MARCH 2022 • By Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini
Mariupol, Ukraine and the Crime of Hospital Bombing
Columns

“There’s Nothing Worse Than War”

24 FEBRUARY 2022 • By Jordan Elgrably
“There’s Nothing Worse Than War”
Fiction

Three Levantine Tales

15 DECEMBER 2021 • By Nouha Homad
Three Levantine Tales
Beirut

Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest

29 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Sudden Journeys: The Villa Salameh Bequest
Book Reviews

The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?

15 NOVEMBER 2021 • By Hadani Ditmars
The Vanishing: Are Arab Christians an Endangered Minority?
Centerpiece

The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By Ramzy Baroud
The Untold Story of Zakaria Zubeidi
Book Reviews

Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s Rifqa Reviewed

15 OCTOBER 2021 • By India Hixon Radfar
Poetry: Mohammed El-Kurd’s <em>Rifqa</em> Reviewed
Film Reviews

Will Love Triumph in the Midst of Gaza’s 14-Year Siege?

11 OCTOBER 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Will Love Triumph in the Midst of Gaza’s 14-Year Siege?
Weekly

Heba Hayek’s Gaza Memories

1 AUGUST 2021 • By Shereen Malherbe
Heba Hayek’s Gaza Memories
Memoir

“Guns and Figs” from Heba Hayek’s new Gaza book

1 AUGUST 2021 • By Heba Hayek
“Guns and Figs” from Heba Hayek’s new Gaza book
Weekly

Wafa Shami’s Palestinian Mulukhiyah

25 JULY 2021 • By Wafa Shami
Wafa Shami’s Palestinian Mulukhiyah
Weekly

Fadi Kattan’s Fatteh Ghazawiya الفتة الغزاوية

25 JULY 2021 • By Fadi Kattan
Fadi Kattan’s Fatteh Ghazawiya الفتة الغزاوية
Columns

When War is Just Another Name for Murder

15 JULY 2021 • By Norman G. Finkelstein
When War is Just Another Name for Murder
Fiction

Gazan Skies, from the novel “Out of It”

14 JULY 2021 • By Selma Dabbagh
Gazan Skies, from the novel “Out of It”
Art & Photography

Gaza’s Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art

14 JULY 2021 • By Yara Chaalan
Gaza’s Shababek Gallery for Contemporary Art
Art

Malak Mattar — Gaza Artist and Survivor

14 JULY 2021 • By Jordan Elgrably
Malak Mattar — Gaza Artist and Survivor
Essays

The Gaza Mythologies

14 JULY 2021 • By Ilan Pappé
The Gaza Mythologies
Columns

The Semantics of Gaza, War and Truth

14 JULY 2021 • By Mischa Geracoulis
The Semantics of Gaza, War and Truth
Latest Reviews

No Exit

14 JULY 2021 • By Allam Zedan
No Exit
Essays

Gaza, You and Me

14 JULY 2021 • By Abdallah Salha
Gaza, You and Me
Columns

Gaza’s Catch-22s

14 JULY 2021 • By Khaled Diab
Gaza’s Catch-22s
Essays

Making a Film in Gaza

14 JULY 2021 • By Elana Golden
Making a Film in Gaza
Essays

Gaza IS Palestine

14 JULY 2021 • By Jenine Abboushi
Gaza IS Palestine
Latest Reviews

A Response to “Gaza: Mowing the Lawn” 2014-15

14 JULY 2021 • By Tony Litwinko
A Response to “Gaza: Mowing the Lawn” 2014-15
Centerpiece

“Gaza: Mowing the Lawn” by Artist Jaime Scholnick

14 JULY 2021 • By Sagi Refael
“Gaza: Mowing the Lawn” by Artist Jaime Scholnick
Essays

Sailing to Gaza to Break the Siege

14 JULY 2021 • By Greta Berlin
Sailing to Gaza to Break the Siege
Weekly

A New Book on Music, Palestine-Israel & the “Three State Solution”

28 JUNE 2021 • By Mark LeVine
A New Book on Music, Palestine-Israel & the “Three State Solution”
Book Reviews

The Triumph of Love and the Palestinian Revolution

16 MAY 2021 • By Fouad Mami
Essays

Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?

14 MAY 2021 • By Taylor Miller, TMR
Is Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek, Too, Occupied Territory?
Essays

Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in

14 MAY 2021 • By Francisco Letelier
Between Thorns and Thistles in Bil’in
Weekly

“I Advance in Defeat”, the Poems of Najwan Darwish

28 MARCH 2021 • By Patrick James Dunagan
“I Advance in Defeat”, the Poems of Najwan Darwish
Poetry

A visual poem from Hala Alyan: Gaza

14 MARCH 2021 • By TMR
A visual poem from Hala Alyan: Gaza
TMR 7 • Truth?

Poetry Against the State

14 MARCH 2021 • By Gil Anidjar
Poetry Against the State
TMR 6 • Revolutions

Ten Years of Hope and Blood

14 FEBRUARY 2021 • By Robert Solé
Ten Years of Hope and Blood
Book Reviews

The Howling of the Dog: Adania Shibli’s “Minor Detail”

30 DECEMBER 2020 • By Layla AlAmmar
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2 thoughts on “Poet Mosab Abu Toha Wins Pulitzer Prize for Essays on Gaza”

  1. In recent years I have decided to let chance guide my political and cultural perspectives. The Markaz Review which I came across by chance led me to discover this Palestinian poet. Thank you. I’m not an artist but I have often pictures in my mind that come as echos to the world distress that move me; words written by that poetry made link to these echos. Thank you very much from France. I think about Gaza… Sorry my english is not fluent !

  2. Thank you Jordan, thank you Markaz, for bringing us Mosab Abu Toha and others of his stature as a human being. We need these reminders that the people in them are not just victims, nor statistics, but examples of the very best of the human race. Their persecution by rich and powerful assassins serves to elevate them even higher and consign their killers to the trash bin of history, where they can continue to debate the pros and cons of genocide.

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