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Nada Elia

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Palestinians gather in the debris of Palestinian prisoner Younes Hilan's home in the village of Hajja, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilya. Israeli forces demolished the two-story house on May 3, 2023. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)

As we commemorate 75 years of catastrophe, we also recognize 75 years of sumud, the Arabic word for “steadfastness” that captures Palestinians defiant resilience.

Palestinians celebrate the end of the eight-day escalation with Israeli forces in Gaza City, November 21, 2012. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/APA Images)

“Light in Gaza: Writings out of Fire” is a hopeful gift from Gaza, reminding us that all of Israel’s power has not, and will not, defeat the Palestinian will to rise and the determination to create a new society where all can thrive.  

Protest against the war in Ukraine in front of the White House, February 27, 2022 (Photo: Amaury Laporte/Flickr)

Anger can move one to action, but bitterness? Nada Elia struggles with the world’s, and her own, reaction to the invasion of Ukraine.

Palestinian women rally to mark International Women's Day in Gaza City on March 8, 2011. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

This International Women’s Day, let us affirm that there can be no free homeland without free women, without free queers, and without free children as they rise above binaries, reach out across boundaries, laugh at society’s archaisms, and model the alternative.