Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force

Every Moment Is a Life: A Gaza anthology curated by Susan Abulhawa is a tour de force Submitted by Hossam el-Hamalawy on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 10:10 The beautifully compiled book’s descriptions of the torturous nature of the routine during genocide is a particularly notable inclusion Palestinian children wade through flood water in Maghazi, Gaza during heavy rains on 25 November 2025 (AFP) Off Every Moment Is a Life arrives with an almost unbearable question: How can literature be made from a genocide still in motion? There is something perverse, even obscene, about aesthetic experience under such conditions. To read these polished, translated short stories while Palestinians in Gaza are still being starved, bombed and displaced can feel like admiring the composition of a beautiful photograph whose subject is a pile of bodies.