We Are Still Here: Voices from Gaza's Student Generation

Since the start of the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, carried out through settler-colonial Israeli violence, higher education institutions have been systematically destroyed. Campuses lie in ruins, academics and students have been killed or forcibly displaced, and what was once a thriving, intellectually vibrant student population now lives under daily threat of bombardment, forced starvation, and death. For nearly two years, students have been cut off not only from their universities, but from their dreams, their futures, and even their most basic sense of safety.Yet, despite this unimaginable trauma, many are still writing.We Are Still Here is an anthology of these voices-raw, unfiltered, and courageous. It features short and long stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gaza's universities. These are not retrospective reflections or distant analyses; they are real-time words, emerging from the depths of genocide, displacement, and grief. These writings may be their last hopes to reach the world, a final act of resistance through expression.