Here Is Gaza

About this book

Between this book's covers, you do not read arranged words, but listen to the stone's moaning and the sighs of chests wearied by waiting. "Here Is Gaza" is no mere poetry collection; it is an emotional document written with the ink of patience, in a time when the friend grew rare and letdown multiplied. The author begins his journey from the heart of tragedy, where words shatter rock and do not light dark hearts, asking bitterly: how does night come in the middle of day? And how do souls become mere numbers in news bulletins? The work's tone progresses between betrayal's darkness and hope's light, searching the human psyche's corners for "the meaning in the poet's belly." Does meaning die if the poet dies? Reda Khadr pulls us from the horrors of "the corridors" and the pain of strangled childhood, to broader horizons of will and defiance, where hope is glimpsed from afar despite the "two veils" the world wears. It is a work blending faithful patriotism for Egypt and extended pain for Jerusalem, and the philosophy of a self refusing to break, declaring in every poem that "with hope there is no pain." It is an invitation to meet "minds dearer than diamonds," and a reminder that will is the only power that knows no impossible, even if its owner is "forgotten" or alone facing the storm. Get ready to undergo a literary experience reordering your feelings' chaos, and making you wonder: are you among those who turn their faces away, or among those carrying the banner with forehead high?