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Refaat Alareer

Born

in Gaza City, Palestinian Territory, Occupied

September 23, 1979

Died

December 07, 2023

Twitter

@thisisgaza

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, Palestine

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Refaat Alareer (Arabic: رفعت العرعير) was a Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist from the Gaza Strip.

Alareer was born in Gaza City in 1979 during the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, which he said had negatively influenced every move and decision he made. Alareer earned a BA in English in 2001 from the Islamic University of Gaza and an MA from University College London in 2007. He earned a PhD in English Literature at the Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2017 with a dissertation on John Donne.

He taught literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and co-founded the organization We Are Not Numbers, which matched experienced authors with young writers in Gaza, and promoted the power of storytelling as a mean ...more

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Refaat Alareer's Blog: Gaza Writes Back

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Young writers from Gaza

Can young writers from Gaza bring a lot to Palestinian literature? (in terms of quantity and quality)

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Published on January 24, 2014 10:07

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Refaat Alareer’s books

Average rating: 4.69 · 2,268 ratings · 533 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim (editor), Jennifer Bing (Editor), Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editor) 4.68 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gaza Writes Back 4.58 avg rating — 1,175 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose by Refaat Alareer, Yousef M. Aljamal (Editor) 4.86 avg rating — 794 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gaza Unsilenced by Refaat Alareer (Editor), Laila El-Haddad (Editor) 4.61 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems for Palestine by Refaat Alareer, Fady Joudah, Jana Traboulsi (Illustrator) 4.83 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queerș pentru Palestina. Luări de poziție, eseuri și poeme by Blocul Roz (Editor), Maria Martelli (Editor, Translator), Nóra Ugron (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Author, Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gaza écrit Gaza - Récits par de jeunes écrivains de Gaza, Pa by Refaat Alareer, Yara El-Ghadban (Afterword), Kev Lambert (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rød jul 2024 by Ellen Engelstad (Editor), Hedda Lingaas Fossum (Editor), Åsa Linderborg (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Refaat Alareer (?)

“There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

tags: palestine, stories, storytelling

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“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

tags: narrative, palestine, story

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“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 that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself—
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up
above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale”
― Refaat Alareer

tags: annexation, dispossession, if-i-must-die, martyr, poet, settler-colonialism, tragedy

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