The Exiled Palestinian Poet Fighting Censorship in Democracies
Briefly

"In 1948, Israel expelled my family from our home in Ashkelon. My grandparents fled with their children and the keys to their house, settling in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza."
"The Israeli army arrested my father and other young men, taking them on a four-day journey through the Sinai Desert without food, and abandoned them on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal."
"I tried everything to get Swedish citizenship so that I could visit my grandmother in Palestine. But it seems everyone can go to Palestine except Palestinians."
"After several attempts, I fled Syria in early September 2008 and arrived in Sweden. In Stockholm, I searched for a way to reconnect with my roots and family history."
Read at The Nation
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