Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a 19-year-old Palestinian writer, poet, and editor from Gaza, studying English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza. You can find more of her work here.

A displaced Palestinian child waves a Palestinian national flag as he walks on the rubble of a destroyed building at the Bureij camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on September 22, 2025.

I’ve Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I’m Still Here. I’ve Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I’m Still Here.

The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.

Oct 7, 2025 / Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Palestinians search their belongings among the rubble of buildings destroyed by an Israeli attack on Abu Hasira street in Gaza City, Gaza, on September 30, 2025.

In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak

The human mind, faced with relentless pain, erects invisible barricades. Here, amid genocide, one of them is the ability to express our trauma out loud.

Oct 1, 2025 / Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

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