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saddayfordemocracy · 6 months

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Hiba Kamal Abu Nada (24 June 1991 – 20 October 2023)

Hiba Kamal Abu Nada was a Palestinian poet, novelist, nutritionist and wikimedian. Her novel "Oxygen is not for the dead" won second place in the Sharja Award for Arab Creativity in 2017.

She was killed in Gaza strip by an Israeli airstrike in the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

Abu Nada was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 24 June 1991 fom a refugee family from Beit Jirja, which was displaced in 1948.

She received a bachelor's degree of biochemistry from Islamic University, Gaza, and a master's degree in clinical nutrition from Al-Azhar University.

She worked for a time at the Rusul Center for Creativity, associated with the al-Amal Institute for Orphans. According to Al-Ayyam, she was "preoccupied with justice, the uprisings of the Arab Spring, and the realities of Palestinian life under occupation."

She published a number of collections of poetry, and a novel, titled al-Uksujīn laysa lil-mawtā (‘Oxygen is not for the dead).

In 2017, she won second place in the 20th annual Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity, held by the United Arab Emirates, for her novel. The book was republished by Dar Diwan in 2021.

Her last post online was on 8 October 2023, when she wrote:

Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.

On 20 October 2023, she was killed in the Israel-Hamas war, during an airstrike by the Israeli Air Force, which hit her home in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. She was 32.

Rest in Power !

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hussyknee · 6 months

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Her final tweet on October 8 reads:

“Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”

#i can't stop crying #oh this grief. this endless fathomless grief #rest in power little sister #free palestine #hiba abu nada #i love they used the present tense for her. she IS a novelist and poet and educator and will be as long as her memory endures #save gaza #gaza genocide #palestinian genocide #from the river to the sea 🇵🇸#palestinian poetry #palestinian art #knee of huss

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edwordsmyth · 6 months

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"Each of us in Gaza is either witness to or martyr for liberation. Each is waiting to see which of the two they’ll become up there with God. We have already started building a new city in Heaven. Doctors without patients. No one bleeds. Teachers in uncrowded classrooms. No yelling at students. New families without pain or sorrow. Journalists writing up and taking photos of eternal love. They’re all from Gaza. In Heaven, the new Gaza is free of siege. It is taking shape now." -Hiba Abu Nada (written hours before she was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on 20 October 2023)

#hiba abu nada #palestine

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thenewgothictwice · 5 months

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Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada, "Not Just Passing," translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine.

#hiba abu nada #huda fakhreddine #palestinian poetry #palestine #free palestine

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havingapoemwithyou · 6 months

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i grant you refuge by Hiba Abu Nada tr. Huda Fakhreddine

Hiba Abu Nada was a novelist, poet, and educator. She wrote this poem on Oct. 10th, 2023. She died a martyr, killed in her home in south Gaza by an Israeli raid on Oct. 20th, 2023. She was 32 years old.

#Hiba Abu Nada #poetry #poem #🇵🇸#Palestine

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flowerwebs · 4 months

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poems for palestine｜🇵🇸 🫒

“defiance”, mahmoud darwish

“i grant you refuge”, hiba abu nada

“a lullaby for gaza”, tayseer abu odeh

“who remembers the palestinians?”, sophia armen

“ against barbarity, poetry can only resist by confirming attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. ” << mahmoud darwish

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garadinervi · 2 months

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Heba Abu Nada (هبة كمال أبو ندى), I Grant You Refuge, Translated by Huda Fakhreddine, in Poems for Palestine. Recent poems by nine Palestinian poets & actions you can take to stop genocide now, Publishers for Palestine, 2024 (PDFs: online version here, print versions inside pages here, front and back cover here, single-page version for print here)

#graphic design #poetry #book #heba abu nada #huda fakhreddine #publishers for palestine #2020s

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tendermimi · 6 months

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excerpt from the last poem ‘I grant you refuge’ by Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada before she was martyred by an israeli air strike on the twentieth of october, translated by Huda Fakhreddine

#hiba abu nada #poor angel #palestine #palestinian poet #arabic poetry #poetry #poem #writings #excerpts #words #quotes

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northgazaupdates · 2 months

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7 March 2024

Photographer Omar Abu Nada documents another round of airdrops containing (a hopelessly small amount of) food and supplies for the people of north Gaza.

Source: Omar Abu Nada on Instagram

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 2 months

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#palestine #human rights #free palestine #Gaza #free gaza #heba Abu nada #poetry #poets #writers #palestinian genocide #palestinian women #palestinian writers #palestinian poetry

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a-queer-seminarian · 4 months

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Poems for Palestine

Poetry empowers us to imagine liberation that we can then work towards, together. In the latest episode of the Blessed Are the Binary Breakers podcast, listen to — or read along in the episode transcript — Jewish, Christian, and Muslim poems by Palestinians and their supporters.

Some pieces explore the Nativity story through this lens: Christmas joy must break bread with pain, birthing solidarity with all oppressed peoples.

Listen wherever you get podcasts — or visit here for a direct link.

Image descriptions are in the alt text and below the readmore.

A photo of Professor Refaat Alareer with a quote from him reading, “We’ve never been to other parts of Palestine because of the Israeli occupation, but… our parents and grandparents — especially our mothers — have been telling us stories… Our homeland turns into a story. In reality we can’t have it, but…we love our homeland because of the story. And we love the story because it’s about our homeland. And this connection is significant. Israel wants to sever the relationship between Palestinians and the land… And literature attaches us back, connects us strongly to Palestine…creating realities, making the impossible sound possible."

A photo of Hiba Abu Nada with an excerpt from her poem "I Grant You Refuge" reading, "I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering. With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous and the shades of cloud from the smog. I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh."

A photo of Aurora Levins Morales with an excerpt from her poem "Red Sea," reading "We cannot cross until we carry each other, all of us refugees, all of us prophets. …this time no one will be left to drown and all of us must be chosen. This time it's all of us or none."

A photo of Basman Derawi with an excerpt from his poem "His Name Was Essa" reading, "Essa means Jesus. My friend was neither God nor prophet, but a rebel soul and humorist, like Jesus. When Essa laughed, everyone laughed. I think joy was his gospel. …I can see him now sitting in heaven nodding, laughing."

#christmas #palestine #palestinian poetry #aurora levins morales #basman derawi #refaat alareer #hiba abu nada #podcast #blessed are the binary breakers #log #winter 2023

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honeyandelixir · 6 months

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These are the last words of award winning 32 year old Palestinian writer & poet Hiba Abu Nada who was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza. "We find ourselves in an indescribable state of bliss amidst the chaos. Amidst the ruins, a new city emerges—a testament to our resilience."

#lit #</3 #falasteen #libre #Hiba Abu Nada

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generallyjl · 6 months

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#I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear #and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh #Hiba Abu Nada #poetry #gaza poetry #palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #from the river to the sea #gaza #palestine will never die #how can one read such things and not feel like their soul is going to bleed out through their eyes? from God we come and to God we return.

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arablit · 6 months

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Poet and Novelist Heba Abu Nada, 32, Reported Dead in Israeli Bombardment

Poet and novelist Heba Abu Nada, author of the novel Oxygen is Not for the Dead (2017), died under bombardment in Khan Yunis on Friday, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture announced. Born in Mecca in 1991, Abu Nada studied biochemistry and completed a Master’s in clinical nutrition. In 2017, she took second place in the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in the novel category for her debut, Oxygen…

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thenewgothictwice · 3 months

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Seven Skies For The Homeland, by Hiba Abu Nada.

Translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine.

Hiba Abu Nada was a Palestinian poet, novelist, and educator. Her novel الأكسجين ليس للموتى (Oxygen is Not for the Dead) won second place from the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in 2017. She was killed in her home in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli airstrike on October 20, 2023 at the age of thirty-two.

#hiba abu nada #palestine #palestinian poetry #free palestine #huda fakhreddine #gaza #poetry

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heypikmin · 2 months

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In late August of 2012, 18 year old Ehab Abu Nada set himself on fire, self immolated, in Gaza. Did you hear about this, in 2012? If not, ask yourself, why are you only hearing of it now? If you did, do you remember the media reporting on it in the same way they report now about Aaron Bushnell?

#Gaza #palastine #free palastine #self immolation #suicide mention #Ehab Abu Nada #aaron bushnell

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