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A Digital Window into Gaza: Mosab's Facebook Poetry
A Digital Window into Gaza: Mosab's Facebook Poetry
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Length:
8 minutes
Released:
Jun 20, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
People are people. But sometimes it is difficult to maintain one’s humanity under dehumanizing conditions. On today’s episode, we share the work of one poet in Gaza whose poems and fragments open a tiny window into the Gaza strip, where only 5% of the water is potable, there is electricity for 5 hours a day, and only 55% of the population is employed. His name is Mosab, and he has created the Edward Said Library for Gaza.
Released:
Jun 20, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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