{"id":339,"date":"2024-01-08T13:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T11:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/?p=339"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:57:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T11:57:49","slug":"read-palestine-light-in-gaza-palestinian-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/en\/read-palestine-light-in-gaza-palestinian-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Palestine: Light In Gaza &amp; Palestinian poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the essay \u201cGaza asks: When shall this pass?\u201d poet and academician Refaat Alareer&nbsp; writes with force and vulnerability about the long-held resilience of Palestinian people, the reliance on saying \u201cit shall pass\u201d from grandmother to mother, transmitted intergenerationally. One form of resistance is storytelling, as he writes:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s both selfish and treacherous to keep a story to yourself\u2014stories are meant to be told and retold. If I kept a story to myself, I would be betraying my legacy, my mother, my grandmother, and my homeland.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet writing is not an easy endeavor to keep at, when Israeli forces attack and bomb universities. Answering the dire situation they are in, Alareer students\u2019 joke, asking \u201cfor short-range stories and long-range stories\u201d. Living under constant military attacks seeps into one\u2019s language, and how can a university, how can a story respond? In his essay, Alareer underlines that the occupation wants to undermine knowledge and openness, a point he returns to often. Not long after I finished reading his chapter, I found out he had been assassinated by an Israeli airstrike, along with his sister\u2019s family (this is in December 2023). In this horrifying moment, we are left to ask, <em>why would a poet be targeted? What power is held in his words? How do we honor his legacy?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His essay is the first one in the anthology \u201c<strong>Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire<\/strong>\u201d edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze, which contains a plethora of writings, political and personal essays from Palestinians, and is up as a free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/1861-light-in-gaza\">ebook <\/a>from Haymarket Books as a response to the current, ongoing genocide in Gaza. Following the Publishers For Palestine #Read Palestine week, I read the above anthology and two poetry books, \u201c<strong>Everything Comes Next<\/strong>\u201d by Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye and \u201c<strong>Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza<\/strong>\u201d by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Read Palestine: Light in Gaza book cover, Everything comes next book cover, Things you may find hidden in my ear book cover\" class=\"wp-image-340\" style=\"width:374px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Artboard-2@2x-100-12x12.jpg 12w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Light In Gaza &#8211; the many forms of resistance &amp; resilience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are just a few of the ideas put forth in \u201cLight in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire\u201d :&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Asma Abu Mezied\u2019s essay explores how Israeli occupation stripped Palestinians not only of their fertile soil, but their cultural practices as well, imposing the water-intensive cultivation of strawberries and cut flowers which can only be traded through Israel.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salem Al Qudwa wrote about the need for culturally-sensitive housing design amidst constant war &#8211; as houses are often destroyed, Palestinians need forms of architecture that are both resilient and attentive to their needs and desires, as certain forms of architecture promoted by NGOs never feel like \u201chome\u201d and make it impossible for them to keep their families close.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discussing Gaza\u2019s electricity precarity, Suhail Taha tries to find solace in recognizing it as a result of a refusal to bend to imperial powers, writing \u201cWhat could be more beautiful than a darkness that keeps reminding us of our steadfastness, a darkness interrupted only by the light of the moon?\u201d.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mosab Abu Toha writes about Gaza\u2019s cultural struggle being \u201ca site of oppression imposed both by external and internal forces. Israel bans books and the Islamists ban music and film.\u201d, unraveling Gaza\u2019s production and dissemination of short stories, film and theater, as well as his own project of creating the Edward Said library, which encountered numerous challenges.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yousef M. Aljamal shows how travel restrictions are current manifestations of Nakba, beginning his essay with a true tale of wit and resistance in which his father escaped the Israeli soldiers\u2019 humiliations: \u201cWe Palestinians were dancing under occupation decades before this incident, and have ever since.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In his poem, Basman Aldirawi underlines the extreme pressure of living under occupation and the constant buzzing of drones, resisting to internalize what the occupier wants to project onto him \u201cA voice inside my head, whispering \/ You\u2019re a full human even if \/ You feel like half.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Small wonders in Naomi Shihab Nye\u2019s poems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye\u2019s poetry volume&nbsp; \u201cEverything Comes Next\u201d, we find wonder at both life and death &#8211; little moments enter one\u2019s heart forever,<strong> a seed of kindness can germinate from the tiniest gestures<\/strong>. Nye knows the small power of words and wields them like a dancer moves their body: for example, in the poem \u201eSifter\u201d, imagination is a savior, metaphor \u201copens doors\u201d. Her volume is one filled with ordinary magic, with mesmerizing hopefulness and attentiveness to the miracle of the mundane &#8211; in her poem \u201cThe traveling onion\u201d, one finds a space in which the invisible beauty of the onion and its taste are admired. In this world, violence is not forgotten, it is impossible to forget, as for a Palestinian, it is ever-present (its weight and incomprehensibility can be found in the poem \u201cThe day\u201d). And yet, there is an urgency of joy amid annihilation (\u201cEvery day was your birthday\u201d). It is, maybe, exactly in the midst of pain, the place in which celebration is most needed. As \u201cThe Shopper\u201d shows us, life doesn\u2019t require much, all its challenges and its becomings can be found in the redness of the ordinary tomato, at the grocery store.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am often in awe of Nye&#8217;s poems, and two that I hold dear to my heart are \u201cMuseum\u201d, which I just discovered in this collection and \u201cGate A-4\u201d. Museum is a prose poem that explores so much: youth, curiosity, difference, inequality, parenthood\/childhood relations and more. It turns you around with a change of perspective characteristic of Nye\u2019s metaphors, except this time it\u2019s literal. \u201cGate A-4\u201d I\u2019ve read many times before, a poem of finding community and making \u201chome\u201d in a non-space such as an airport. It\u2019s a poem in which responding to a stranger\u2019s needs makes one see connectedness, marking the strength of Palestinian solidarity. I\u2019ll say it: I tear up almost every time I read it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Roses amidst rubble in Mosab Abu Toha\u2019s poems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mosab Abu Toha\u2019s \u201cThings You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza\u201d is a volume of poetry holding the immense pain of living under settler-colonial occupation and apartheid. By putting it into words, words which can be \u201ca returning device (&#8230;) to be able to see (&#8230;) again\u201d, we are shown both the violence and the dreams of the people living on a land where \u201cbreathing is a task, \/ smiling is performing \/ plastic surgery \/ on one\u2019s own face\u201d. It is not only there that \u201cBorders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets.\u201d, yet Toha\u2019s poetry collection marks the specificity of the Palestinian struggle. For example, he recalls the Nakba, the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, and the turning of people into \u201cterrorists\u201d: \u201cMy grandfather was a terrorist\u2014 \/ He departed his house, leaving it for the coming guests, \/ left some water on the table, his best, \/ lest the guests die of thirst after their conquest.\u201d Because the political situation is so dire, he is left asking for \u201ca better death\u201d, a poem that strikes hard in the current context of Israel\u2019s genocidal attacks on Gaza, where, like in its lines: \u201cOur bodies are disfigured and twisted, \/ embroidered with bullets and shrapnel. \/ Our names are pronounced incorrectly \/ on the radio and TV.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet Mosab Abu Toha writes with a shard of hope, with \u201csongs in Arabic, \/ poems in English I recite to myself, \/ or a song I chant to the chirping birds in our backyard.\u201d hidden in his ear. His site is wherever \u201ca child does not confuse a cloud \/ for bomb smoke.\u201d and his insistence, both in writing and his life, as a founder of the Edward Said English language library in Gaza after the destruction of his university\u2019s library, is that \u201cWe love what we have, no matter how little, \/ because if we don\u2019t, everything will be gone.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this struggle to hope against the odds, I found similarities between Nye and Toha\u2019s collections. Yet, at the end of Toha\u2019s book, there is an interview which adds context for the reader. In it, Toha writes that \u201cIn the U.S., I could write about a tree bending down to drink from my teacup while I\u2019m walking in the morning, or a squirrel sipping from a glass I left on the porch. But while I\u2019m in Gaza, I can only think about the constant sound of the drones, the F-16s, the seashore littered with bodies or shrapnel.\u201d These last few words ring in my ear, as someone who has never experienced war, someone who can write about trees bending down. <strong>Not only must we struggle for a free Palestine, but do so with full recognition of what is taken from every being that lives under occupation.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cried, unfailingly, reading each and every one of these books, with the heavy heart of a reader plunged deep into a world of violence &#8211; and yet removed from it. The extreme injustice Palestinians are subjected to under Israeli occupation is unfathomable. By reading about the small details of living life under a blockade &#8211; in overcrowded cities, not allowed to travel to meet one\u2019s family members or to get medical treatment, constantly under bombardment or humiliating violence, always with drones in the air, perennially at risk &#8211; by listening to their voices, by being open to learning about this, we can put ourselves into an emotionally informed position of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Romanian readers, you can consider browsing this book of translations and essays by queers in solidarity with Palestine, which I helped edit &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/pagini-libere.ro\/carti\/queers-pentru-palestina-luari-de-pozitie-eseuri-si-poeme\/\">Queer\u0219 pentru Palestina (lu\u0103ri de pozi\u021bie, eseuri \u0219i poeme)<\/a> &#8211; and which can be found (in a beautiful, handmade by Pagini Libere, physical form) next week in Cluj (at coop) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1066388074405892\/1066388094405890\">Week of Solidarity with Palestine <\/a>(8 -14 January) &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/gogetfunding.com\/donate-to-jenin-a-christmas-gift-that-can-save-lives\/\">fundraising for Jenin<\/a> (here you can donate from anywhere).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our power, as individuals, is small, yet we can each participate in boosting Palestinian voices and refusing to give in to Israeli propaganda. And as collectives we can do much more &#8211; BDS, protest &amp; strike for a free Palestine.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the essay \u201cGaza asks: When shall this pass?\u201d poet and academician Refaat Alareer\u00a0 writes with force and vulnerability about the long-held resilience of Palestinian people, the reliance on saying \u201cit shall pass\u201d from grandmother to mother, transmitted intergenerationally. 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