Palestinian Voices

Poetry & prose from Gaza, the West Bank, and displaced Palestinian writers.

Poetry & Prose

أصوات فلسطينية

A living collection of writing

Sharing what survival, memory, and hope sound like in the words of Palestinian students and writers. Every piece written here is an act of sumud — proof that Palestinian culture, thought, and feeling endure.

9 writers · 22 poems & chapters

Heritage & Culture

Stories Told Through Art

Palestinian identity, memory and belonging, shared through the visual culture of our community.

A Ramzunā poster titled Memory: Traditions and Folk Stories, featuring an ornate letter M decorated with Palestinian embroidery patterns, a brass coffee pot and an open storybook — Memory: Traditions & Folk Stories

A Ramzunā poster in Arabic titled Identity and Belonging, showing the Dome of the Rock and a keffiyeh alongside an olive branch — Identity & Belonging · الهوية والانتماء

The Writers

Meet the poets and storytellers sharing their voices with the world — click through to read their work in full.

Amira

Palestine

Amira is a Palestinian translation student and writer. She writes to document the genocide Palestinians have endured, and she translates her words so the story of Palestinians reaches the world, ensuring it is never forgotten.

To My Brother Read “Didn't we always say, we either live together or die together?”

Arwa

Palestine

Arwa is a junior student at the Islamic University of Gaza, majoring in English translation and Literature. She turns to poetry and prose to translate silence into language and pain into meaning, believing that words are powerful tools of resistance, awareness, and transformation.

Kindle the Spark: Echoes Read “And I beg you, please let me stir a revolution... if you refuse, I shall do it alone in my heart before it forgets its name.”

Mais

Palestine

Mais is only fourteen, yet her dreams far exceed her years. Mais believes learning is a never-ending journey. She dreams of becoming someone of value and influence who leaves a positive mark on her community and is remembered for her kindness and achievements.

Meeting My New Self Read “I am Mais, and I am not the end, I am a beginning learning how to be written...” I Am Still Here Read “I cling on like a branch of a tree, and I bloom like a jasmine flower.”

Marah

Palestine

Twenty-two-year-old Marah started writing during the war, focusing on her experiences of trying not just to survive but also to live with her family. Writing is not a choice to her — it is a way to survive.

A Day of Breathing Life

A story in 6 chapters

Start Reading — Chapter 1

Ch. 2 Ch. 3 Ch. 4 Ch. 5 Ch. 6

Noor

Palestine

Noor is a student in English Literature and Translation who is passionate about writing. She aims to use her craft to share the voice of Gaza with the world.

Between North and South Read “I am here, as I never have before.” To My Beloved Home Read “If only you had held me, and we had crumbled together, and risen side by side into the sky.” Just Write Read “He did not stay silent, but was fighting by writing.” Grey Read “I reject all that is grey: old movies, stormy clouds, and the remnants of extinguished fire.” Midnight Read “Their crime is the same: we only wanted to live. Just to live.” A Letter From Gaza to Santa Claus Read “We want homes like the ones we once had, homes death cannot enter.”

Shams

Palestine

Shams has a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Teaching Methods from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. She is passionate about creative writing and translation, believing in the power of words to express resilience and hope.

The Sun of Hope Read “I am the Sun, and I will rise.” A Spring in Autumn Read “That spring might bloom for me, untouched by autumn's blight.”

Shahed

Palestine

Shahed is a Palestinian poet who writes from the heart of lived experience. Even when life shuts the door, she finds ways to reach out through her letters, believing that true connection cannot be measured by maps or blocked by walls.

The Door I No Longer Knock On Read “That a home recognises its own, even in silence.” Ash Read “That a day will come, born from the heart of hell.”

Aya

Palestine

Aya Rezeq Aldeeb is a voice from Gaza, writing to be heard.

Obsessions Read “There is no creature on this earth more predatory than a human who has been robbed of what they hold dear.”

Menna

Palestine

Born in 2004, Menna is a translator, audio content presenter, podcaster, aspiring writer, and poet. Through her work, she brings life to her voice and to those the world has forgotten. Menna believes the genocide in Gaza has produced a new generation of writers. She writes many short texts you may find published on her Instagram page, and she also enjoys voice-over presentations and her latest work Roam the Streets and Collect Street Sayings, narrates colloquial Arabic street sayings alongside their English translations.

Street Suffering Read “I feel like a power pole, extinguished and worn out, tired of life.”

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If you are a Palestinian writer with a poem, story, or letter you would like included here, we would love to hear from you. We publish both the Arabic and English/French/German versions.

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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian poet & author