<div>To those kind enough to have landed here,
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<div>My name is Julia Choucair and I am raising funds to support Heba Al-Agha, a beautiful writer and fierce mother from Gaza.
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<div>Heba, her husband, and their two young children need our help to get their bearings in Cairo, and to support their relatives still in Gaza. After 8 months of harrowing multiple displacements, from her home in Gaza City to Khan Younis then to Rafah, Heba was able to cross into Egypt, but had to leave everything behind: her house, anything that didn´t fit into a few suitcases, her work as a creative writing trainer at a cultural foundation, her husband´s dental practice...
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<div>It is hard to condense the fear, pain, and grief of this involuntary journey into a GoFundMe ask. Heba´s writing speaks for itself. Since October 2023, she has been sharing poetry, freeform narration, diary entries, letters. and photos here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/em.kamel.3785" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/em.kamel.3785" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/em.kamel.3785</a></a>
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<div>Some translations have been published by LitHub here <a href="https://lithub.com/gaza-diaries-we-left-our-souls-at-home/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://lithub.com/gaza-diaries-we-left-our-souls-at-home/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://lithub.com/gaza-diaries-we-left-our-souls-at-home/</a></a> and by Arab Lit here <a href="https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/</a></a> and in their beautiful issue dedicated to Gaza <a href="https://arablit.org/arablit-quarterly-majalla-28-spring-2024-gaza-gaza-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://arablit.org/arablit-quarterly-majalla-28-spring-2024-gaza-gaza-gaza/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://arablit.org/arablit-quarterly-majalla-28-spring-2024-gaza-gaza-gaza/</a></a>
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<div>You can also listen to Heba read one of her poems here, followed by readings in English, Italian, and Spanish. <a href="https://go.ivoox.com/rf/131128929" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://go.ivoox.com/rf/131128929" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://go.ivoox.com/rf/131128929</a></a>
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<div>Translating Heba´s writing into English has been a profound joy, a refuge from this darkness. She takes us home to Palestine´s herbs and plants, to its female friendships, to the ordinary extraordinary details of the house she left behind, to lives both full and gutted.
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<div>I hope you are moved to support Heba and her writing. All funds collected here will be sent to her in Cairo.
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<div>With gratitude,
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<div>Heba and Julia
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<div>Heba as hakawati (storyteller) at her former place of work, the Qattan Cultural Center in Gaza City, where she trained children in creative writing.
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<div>Heba, Kamel, and Yara.
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<div><strong>When the War Parts: A Poem from Gaza by Heba Al-Agha</strong>
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<div>I won’t be the same
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<div>might become a closet or a bed
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<div>a gas canister, a rug
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<div>a library
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<div>a giant lap, one long embrace.
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<div>When the war parts
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<div>I won’t find a grave to visit
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<div>for the road itself will be the graveyard
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<div>There will be no flowers to lay
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<div>as they too will have died.
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<div>No palms on graves, and no graves either.
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<div>I will stumble on a head here, a foot there, a friend’s face
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<div>on the ground, his bag carrying crumbs for the little ones.
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<div>Scattered eyes, I’ll see them everywhere
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<div>and a heart that has gotten lost, panting
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<div>will settle on my shoulder
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<div>and I´ll walk it through the rubble
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<div>this broken stone with which we were killed.
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<div>Full poem here: <a href="https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://arablit.org/2024/04/29/when-the-war-parts-a-poem-from-gaza-by-heba-al-agha/</a></a>
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