– Hani Al-Salmi is a Palestinian writer from the Gaza Strip. He has published more than twenty novels and children’s stories and has received literary awards throughout the Arab world. Al-Salmi remains in Gaza, where he and his family continue to endure the realities of war, displacement, and siege. He contributed this piece to The Palestine Chronicle.
By Hani al-Salmy As Gaza’s walls crumble, a search for Handala leads from vanished drawings to the children living his story every day. Handala was everywhere. I used to see him on the walls of […]
By Hani al-Salmy The story of Alma Younis, the little girl who grew up during the war before she learned to write her own name. My mother told me I was three years old when […]
By Hani al-Salmy In a Gaza displacement camp, five girls imagine cities where no child goes hungry and ordinary days are beautiful again. In war, children do not have many things they can save. They […]
By Hani al-Salmy In Gaza, four Palestinians describe how war transformed a childhood game into a terrifying daily struggle between movement and stillness. When we were children, there was a simple game that required neither […]
By Hani al-Salmy Three classic novels are reimagined in Gaza, where hunger, death, and the world’s refusal to see give them new endings. Perhaps time got the order of the books wrong. Perhaps Hunger was […]
By Hani al-Salmy In wartime, a donkey cart becomes a courtroom when one question turns passengers into suspects and exposes fear’s quiet power. The only public transportation left to us in wartime is the donkey […]
By Hani al-Salmy Six Palestinians in Gaza explain why they want the war to end through memories of life’s smallest, most irreplaceable details. I asked them one question: Why do you want the war to […]
By Hani al-Salmy I realize that we can still steal a small moment from war, place a little color on our faces, and quietly tell it: You have not won yet. My name is Nagham […]
By Hani al-Salmy Palestinian writer Hani al-Salmy reflects on his Christian friend Elias, whose compassion amid genocide reveals Gaza’s enduring bonds of faith and humanity. My Christian friend, Elias Abu Alaa. As I write his […]
By Hani al-Salmy Around a clay oven in a Gaza displacement camp, stories of loss, memory and return transform survival into an act of belonging. When we returned to the clay oven during the war, […]
By Hani al-Salmy In Gaza, a grandmother’s memories of village life become a survival guide as war forces Palestinians back to their deepest roots. My grandmother, Naima Mousa, passed away shortly before the war, at […]
By Hani al-Salmy In Gaza’s endless water lines, three artists reveal how war devastates culture yet cannot silence the human spirit behind art. War fears music, theater and painting. It fears everything that still trembles […]
By Hani al-Salmy War in Gaza was not merely a subject that entered these texts; it was a force that reshaped the writer’s relationship with language and the self. War is never a passing event […]
By Hani al-Salmy “Why did you leave the horse alone?” “To keep the house company, my son. Houses die when their inhabitants are gone.” — Mahmoud Darwish With these words by Mahmoud Darwish, I begin […]
By Hani al-Salmy For two months, displaced children in Gaza prepared a Shakespeare play, only to be uprooted again before opening night. Yet the story survived. A few months ago, amid the rubble of indistinguishable […]
By Hani al-Salmy While journalism documents events, literature captures their emotional and human weight. In “What Remains of the Light,” Palestinian writer Hani Al-Salmy reflects on life in Gaza during genocide, searching for hope and […]
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