Brief Published (Dubai time, UTC+4) · event date: 2026-10-13
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Al-Shaer has published I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza, a poignant account of the war in Gaza and its human consequences.
He describes the transformation of memory, childhood, and the meaning of existence under bombardment, notably recounting his family’s displacement and his daughter’s understanding of a world reduced to tents.
His testimony, reported by France 24, emphasizes that the struggle for survival goes beyond physical destruction: it also involves preserving identity, collective memory, and the possibility of a normal life.
For Mahmoud Al-Shaer, writing becomes an act of resistance against the erasure and forgetting imposed by war.
