Completed reading Gaza Writes Back, edited together by recently killed Refaat Alareer, who frequently talked about the importance of students learning English, and learning to teach English to better present their personal writing to the world.
It's a collection of short stories from mostly Palestinian women.
Many of the stories are hopeful in the face of an ever present haunted feeling.
Many of the stories are grim, as the war upon them never ended before this time.
Every sort of emotion is expressed, but ultimately all wishing for conflict to end, and the sophisticated kinds of prison walls to be dismantled.
Without the sort of clinical separation that a news article's tone typically embodies, the authors allow the reader to walk beside them in their daily lives.
