Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Documenting Palestinian life is an act of historical preservation, Palestinian-American novelist and author Susan Abulhawa tells Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq.
Reflecting on the remarkable number of new books emerging from Gaza over the past year, Abulhawa stresses the importance of recording Palestinian experiences for future generations.
“There will be a moment in time when readers will seek out our stories,” she says. “Everybody in Gaza should be writing… We need these historic audits.”
In this conversation, Abulhawa discusses her experience travelling to Gaza in 2024, bringing supplies and medicine, and mentoring young Palestinian writers whose lives had been shattered under the weight of a genocide.
She explains why she believes Palestinians in Gaza must be at the forefront of telling their own stories, and why diaries, fiction, journalism and literature can become part of the historical record.
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Documenting Palestinian life is an act of historical preservation, Palestinian-American novelist and author Susan Abulhawa tells Palestine Deep Dive’s Ahmed Alnaouq.
Reflecting on the remarkable number of new books emerging from Gaza over the past year, Abulhawa stresses the importance of recording Palestinian experiences for future generations.
“There will be a moment in time when readers will seek out our stories,” she says. “Everybody in Gaza should be writing… We need these historic audits.”
In this conversation, Abulhawa discusses her experience travelling to Gaza in 2024, bringing supplies and medicine, and mentoring young Palestinian writers whose lives had been shattered under the weight of a genocide.
She explains why she believes Palestinians in Gaza must be at the forefront of telling their own stories, and why diaries, fiction, journalism and literature can become part of the historical record.
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