“There is no exchange rate for human lives, all lives are sacred and equal.”
Grateful to the Cleveland Review of Books for this searching, compassionate interview covering my book #PalestineWail, and to the courageous hearts of Shaymaa Mahmoud and John Brantingham who conducted it.
We spoke about #poetry as a vessel for shared humanity, about truth-telling amid censorship, and about the spiritual and moral reckoning our times demand.
At the heart of it: a refusal to dehumanize Palestinians, and a plea for compassion.
‘over 50,000 Palestinians, approximately one third of them under the age of eighteen, have been slaughtered. In fact, in The Lancet’s article “Counting the dead in #Gaza: difficult but essential” from July 2024, Rasha Khatib states “it is not implausible to estimate up to 186,000 or even more deaths’
Read Full Interview : https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/how-hope-outlasts-despair-an-interview-with-yahia-lababidi
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