Refaat Alareer

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Refaat Alareer (1979–2023) was a professor of world literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and the editor of Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine (2013). He was killed by an IDF airstrike on December 6, 2023, along with his brother, nephew, his sister, and three of her children.

If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose by Refaat Alareer

Refaat Alareer
New York. OR Books. 2024. 288 pages.Poet, writer, teacher, academic, editor, activist, human being, Palestinian, Gazan—Refaat Alareer (September 23, 1979–December 6, 2023) was and rem…
A Bilingual Poem from Gaza

December 14, 2023 Refaat Alareer
Illustration by fran_kie / Adobe Stock If I Must Die If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so…