Jehad Abu Dayya and Esraa El-Banna

Jehad Abu Dayya is a third year medical student and poet from Gaza. He was displaced from Gaza City on October 13th, 2023 and is currently still displaced in Deir Albalah in South Gaza. He has just released his debut poetry collection in Arabic:
 مذبوح في هامش الوقت
published by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture. Exploring war, displacement, love, loss, and distance, the book is available in print in the West Bank and online here
 

Esraa El-Banna is a third year English literature student writer and artist from Gaza. She was displaced from Gaza City on October 13th, 2023 and is currently still displaced in Deir Albalah in South Gaza. She resorted to drawing comics as a style of simplicity that can depict any issue to put facts and stories smoothly in the hands of the world and be more free in her lines with simple tools.