Mohammed R Mhawish

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The War We Carry
For Palestinians forced out of Gaza, survival means bearing a second trauma: the endless dislocation of exile.
Aug 22 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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Severed, a Gaza film I co-produced, is about one boy — and all of us
Through the story of a boy who lost everything, we tell the truth about a people who continue to live.
Aug 5 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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I wrote on Gaza’s mental-health crisis for The New Yorker
Gaza’s mental-health workers are trying to heal others while carrying their own grief. This is what they told me.
Aug 5 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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Israel’s aid concessions merely offer Gazans survival on a leash
To deflect international outrage, Israel’s strategy is clear: maintain enough control to kill with impunity, and enough relief to look humane while…
Jul 29 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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“We’re starving”: A Gaza journalist’s dispatch from the midst of starvation
This dispatch from my colleague and friend Ruwaida Amer speaks more powerfully than anything I could write alone.
Jul 21 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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We don't have to be dead for your movements to be alive
I’ve lost more than words can hold and I refuse to let the world dress that up as strength.
Jun 18 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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My toddler watched Ms. Rachel in the rubble of our Gaza home. She just talked to me — and him
On why Ms. Rachel’s stand for the children in Gaza gave Palestinian parents like me hope.
Jun 15 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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Gaza needs bread and breath. But when aid stops, funerals begin
The recent pledge of aid to Gaza is a cruel illusion, and amounts to nothing other than another layer of death and suffering.
Jun 11 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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What hunger sounds like
An audio story about the noise hunger makes in Gaza and the silence around it
Jun 6 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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Some of us are tired of surviving
For many in Gaza, death isn't always the worst outcome.
May 31 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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When reporters become reported
In Gaza, the journalist and the civilian are often one and the same — both targets, both testimonies.
May 14 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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What It Feels Like to Starve
What we are witnessing now in Gaza is not a famine of nature. It is famine as a weapon of mass destruction.
May 12 • Mohammed R. Mhawish
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