My search for Refaat Alareer’s body
When the ceasefire in Gaza began, my main focus became finding an answer to this question: Where is Dr. Refaat Alareer’s body? I wanted to fulfill the wish of Refaat’s mother, who…
Refaat Alareer
Refaat Alareer and the Writers He Empowered to Tell Their Stories
“If I must die, you must liveto tell my story” How do you tell the story of Refaat Alareer? For the friends of Refaat Alareer—husband, father of six, university professor, writer…
Letter to Refaat Alareer
Dear Refaat, We are not silent. We are being silenced. The students who, during the last academic year set up encampments, occupied halls, went on hunger strikes and spoke out against the…
My final moments with Refaat Alareer
At 3:15 pm precisely one year ago, on 6 December 2023, I received a call from Refaat. It was during the most intensive strikes of the war and the ground invasion…
The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer
The following pieces by Dr. Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet, professor and beloved mentor who was murdered in an Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023, have not been published previously. These pieces will…
‘Let It Be a Tale’: On Refaat Alareer and the Martyrdom of the Gaza Intellectual
What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long, brutal siege for many years, facing one of…
To Refaat Alareer
(In response to his poem, If I Must Die) We all must die RefaatI agree.But none should rushFrom one building to anotherOnly to be the rubbleOr the dust of flesh.No…
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