Elegy for Rafah

Doha Kahlout’s article “Elegy for Rafah”, translated by Katharine Halls, has been featured in The New York Review of Books on March 20.

“Since the beginning of the year, my phone has been a window through which I watch the Rafah crossing from my bedroom in Paris three thousand kilometers away. Every piece of news about it awakes something in me that neither the cold of this city nor the long distance can quiet. After nine months in France I still find myself stuck between two worlds: free, expansive Paris and confined, fettered Gaza, ruled by a metal gate that opens and closes at the order of the occupation alone. On either side of this gate are stories that the world doesn’t know, but we Gazans do, because the stories are in our bodies and our names.”

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