“The way the topics were chosen, the smoothness in presenting ideas and supporting them with videos, pictures, reviews, and our participation via chat or voice with opinions and writings, and the impact of those topics in light of the ongoing war, and reminding us that we are a miracle and that we are capable during the period in which we were helpless.
It was fun to brainstorm for a while and think again after thinking about survival and adapting to life after displacement, so participating in this camp was a great idea to re-condition the brain and thinking and return to reading and writing, which is a great thing to enrich my mind and reformulate ideas into blogs and poems describing each session and every topic raised in the sessions, and I look forward to more of these sessions in the future in better conditions other than war, as I attended all the sessions without excuses of internet outage or bad internet. It was fun to participate and learn from these sessions.
I have benefited a lot, honestly. Raising these issues on the intellectual scene is important in light of the current global situation in which the world is witnessing the outbreak of wars, displacement, genocide, migration, racism, lack of security and peace. This contradicts what they call freedom of opinion, peace and homeland, in addition to creating sectarian conflicts and racist problems to tear apart the community, dismantle societies and create conflicts within one society. Therefore, we need to deepen these concepts such as homeland, freedom, miracles, color and supportive messages of love and the existence of peoples who support these ideas and are not satisfied with seeing a people occupied and annihilated and not doing anything.”
— Asmaa, Poetry of the Camps-Gaza