I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. Great thanks to the prize’s jury and board members for honoring me.

I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.

Blessings to the 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023.

Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their husbands and their children. Blessings to the soul of my great aunt, Fatima, whose “corpse” remains under the rubble of her house since October 2024. Blessings to the graves of my grandparents who I will never find.

Blessings to the souls of my students who got killed while looking for food or firewood. To the school where I studied and where I taught, to the library that I founded and to which I added one poetry book before 2023.

Blessings to many more, many more.

I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and JUSTICE and PEACE!

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