Husam Maarouf is a poet and journalist from Gaza. He has published two poetry collections, Death Smells Like Glass and The Barber Loyal To His Dead Clients, and the novel Ram’s Chisel. He is also co-founder of a new publishing house, Gaza Publications.

Read recent essays by Husam:

‘Gaza, the Game the Elephant Swallows Every Time’

I Want a Room, God. Do You Hear Me?

How Do I Leave the Prison of Gaza?

What Do Gazans Read During War?

How War Transformed My Literary Taste

Hunger That Defeats Language

Laughter Without Joy: Between Gaza’s Reality and Beckett’s Stage

Learn more about Husam’s publishing house:

Husam Maarouf on Launching New ‘Gaza Publications’

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