Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

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Susan Abulhawa has curated "Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide," a bilingual anthology of short stories by 18 Gaza-based writers, with proceeds directed to contributors and the Palestine Writes Literature Festival. The collection, edited in Arabic by Huzama Habayeb and in English by Abulhawa and Kay Heikkinen, emerged from workshops conducted in Gaza and was revised through WhatsApp during the ongoing conflict, with contributors reporting deaths and displacement between revisions.

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Submitted by Hossam el-Hamalawy on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 10:10 The beautifully compiled book’s descriptions of the torturous nature of the routine during genocide is a particularly notable inclusion Palestinian children wade through flood water in Maghazi, Gaza during heavy rains on 25 November 2025 (AFP) Off Every Moment Is a Life arrives with an almost unbearable question: How can literature be made from a genocide still in motion? There is something perverse, even obscene, about aesthetic experie

Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

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