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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're going to ask Mosab Abu Toha to read the beginning of his poem "Younger Than War." MOSAB ABU TOHA: (Reading) Tanks roll through dust, through eggplant fields.
Mosab Abu Toha is a columnist, a teacher, founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza. His recent essay in The New York Times is headlined “Gaza’s Schools Are for Learning, Not for Dying.” ...
AMY GOODMAN: Mosab Abu Toha, I want to thank you very much for being with us, Palestinian poet and author. We’ll link your piece in The New Yorker, “Requiem for a Refugee Camp.” ...
Abu Toha’s poetic output began a decade ago in the form of Facebook posts directed at his English-speaking friends abroad describing scenes and sensations during the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza.
Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winning poet talks about parenting in war and the devastation of leaving his family and friends behind.
— Mosab Abu Toha (@MosabAbuToha) May 5, 2025. Advertisement . The Palestinian poet told Al Jazeera’s The Take podcast in December that the feeling of inability to help people in Gaza has been ...
Mosab Abu Toha was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his essays published in the New Yorker which detailed the ongoing war in Gaza. Social media posts of his, uncovered by the journalism watchdog group ...
Emily Damari, 28, a British-Israel citizen, said she was shocked that the board would recognize Mosab Abu Toha, 32, with a Pulitzer for his essays on the Gaza war after he made light of the ...
Mosab Abu Toha left Gaza in December 2023 — after being detained by Israeli soldiers, in an experience he chronicled in his writing — and moved in 2024 to Syracuse, New York, after receiving a ...
Emily Damari, a British-Israel citizen, said she was shocked that the board would recognize Mosab Abu Toha with a Pulitzer for his essays on the Gaza war after he made light of the suffering she ...
NPR's Scott Simon asks Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha about his new collection, "Forest of Noise," and about the conflict in Gaza. Mosab Abu Toha writes poetry to preserve memory and bear witness ...