Palestinian writer and translator from Gaza. She is a PhD researcher in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, exploring Palestinian speculative fiction. Her work has been published in ArabLit Quarterly, ArabLit, the Institute for Palestine Studies, and Electronic Intifada. She shares updates about what she’s reading on Instagram @shai_reads.
‘Since leaving Khan Younis, I have not felt whole. The knowledge that complete healing will never come has become something I carry with me always, like a part of my body, like an extra limb.’ A Gazan writer on her experience of multiple displacement, written in March 2025.
