Location: Gaza, Palestine a week after the ceasefire Photograph: Duha Hasan
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, Gaza
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza, and a 19-year-old English literature student at the Islamic University of Gaza.
Through her writing, she seeks to amplify Gaza’s voice and shed light on stories often left untold. She contributes to We Are Not Numbers (WANN), and her work has appeared in outlets including The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The Palestine Chronicle, The Markaz Review, Middle East Monitor, Al Jazeera English, Middle East Eye, The Massachusetts Review, the Institute for Palestine Studies, Prism, The New Arab, The Intercept, Truthout, Politics Today, Opol, ArabLit Quarterly, and The Nation.
She is also an editor with Baladi Magazine, where her poetry has been published.
