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Dear Gaza - Voices of Palestine: PoeTea | Short Film | Never Again - Olive Resistance [EN] Dear Gaza – A Short FilmA tribute from Mauritius to Palestine 🇲🇺🇵🇸Presented by Never Again – Olive ResistanceDear Gaza is a short film born from Voices o...

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All Guest Poets 2007-2024 February and March 2024 12th February New Creative Writing from UCC Each February, Ó Bhéal presents poets and short fiction writers engaged in UCC's MA Creative Writing programme, who read from their new work. This event will be held both in-person, hosted in the Hayloft bar, upstairs in Long V

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Mauritian writers sign a declaration to support South Africa ‘s case at the ICJ to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza

War Crimes – Writers’ Common Declaration Against Genocide : « Support the South African Case and in this Way help end the Genocide » Words are the tools of writers’ trade. Words that are thought out, felt deeply, pondered over, weighed and weighted before they are committed to paper. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we feel...

The Gaza Mono-Logues”

14. Sami El Jerjawi
Born 1994
At Tuffah

The hour that I hate most in the day is 12 noon. Every time the exams start I feel that the war will start again. I can’t answer any of the exam questions, and thoughts keep floating around in my head till I’m sick of them… I ask myself, is what’s happening to me normal, or am I sick?
People say the sea of Gaza washes all pains but my pain is bigger than the sea. Because the last time I was at the sea, I was with my friend; we swam, played and had fun… But now I can’t go to the sea anymore.
The Talateeni street is near the petrol station, and petrol was dear to people and expensive – it was a big deal to have a liter of petrol, there was a war going on, and people were afraid to buy anything. My Dad sent me to buy petrol. After I bought it, I went to the house of my friend Zaki who lives near the station. I was missing him a lot, and hadn’t seen him for more than ten days.
I got to his house and I was in a hurry because my Dad wanted me to return quickly with the petrol. I went inside their house without knocking the door. His mum considers me like her son and me too. I said hello to her and to my friend, hugged him and kissed him, said hello to his brothers and quickly left.
When there were 20 meters between me and their house… I heard the loud sound of a plane and after that the sound of a rocket falling on my friend’s house. People started screaming that the house was bombed. I couldn’t believe it! I looked back at my friend’s house and saw fire and smoke coming out of it; I’d never seen anything like that.
I went back running to our house. When I got there my dad told me your friend died. No he didn't… Everyone started telling me your friend Zaki died, and I didn’t believe them. That’s why I didn’t go to the funeral or the hospital or the cemetery because Zaki did not die.
I always talk to him at night, well not exactly to him – to his photo. I’m very upset with him because he doesn’t come visit me and I also stopped visiting him at home. I’m sure he’s not dead and for sure there will come a day when we meet… Then I’ll blame him, because I miss him so much.
I have another friend living in Russia, he always tells me about Russia and the freedom and safety that he lives in… I feel that I’m not living, I start wishing that I would dive in the sea and keep diving and diving till I come out and find myself in Russia.

Let's Stand Together for People in Gaza
November 29th, 2023
Global Reading of The Gaza Monologues
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A reading by Tania Haberland
A sound/film editing by Carine Iriarte

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The Gaza Monologues #14 | A Reading by Tania Haberland 4'20 “The Gaza Mono-Logues” 14. Sami El Jerjawi Born 1994 At Tuffah The hour that I hate most in the day is 12 noon. Every time the exams start I feel that…

“The Gaza Mono-Logues”

01. Ahmad El Ruzzi
Born 1993
Al Wehda Street
Before the war, I used to feel that Gaza was my second mother. Its ground was the warm chest I could lay on, and its sky was my dreams… without limits. The sea would wash away my worries. But today I feel it’s an exile, I stopped feeling it’s the city of my dreams.

02. Ahmad Taha
Born 1996
Al Daraj
All my life I thought Gaza was the biggest and most beautiful city in the world. But once, I went with my Dad to Jaffa and came back with my head spinning. After that I felt that Gaza was the size of a needle hole and wasn’t beautiful, and it keeps getting smaller and worse. No one can breathe, and on top of it all we’re not allowed to travel.
Every time I walk the streets of Gaza I suffocate. Jaffa’s picture won’t leave my mind. I ask myself, where are we? We’re so far from the rest of the world. That’s why I’m always at the sea, because I feel it’s not from Gaza. I keep writing my name on the sand and the waves come and erase it.

Let's Stand Together for People in Gaza
November 29th, 2023
Global Reading of The Gaza Monologues
gazamonologues.com/

A reading by Tania Haberland
A sound/film editing by Carine Iriarte

https://vimeo.com/888866946

The Gaza Monologues #01 #02 | A Reading by Tania Haberland 2'22 “The Gaza Mono-Logues” 01. Ahmad El Ruzzi Born 1993 Al Wehda Street Before the war, I used to feel that Gaza was my second mother. Its ground was the…