Before We Are Erased: Why I Founded Gaza Publications During the Genocide

Before We Are Erased: Why I Founded Gaza Publications During the Genocide

During the early days of the genocide, I was in the city of Rafah, displaced, sleeping under a roof that I didn’t know would still be there by morning. Shells were falling around the building where I had taken refuge with my family, and every night I thought about the possibility that it could all end in an instant. But what frightened me most was not death alone, but the idea of dying before my writings reached the world—that my story would dis…