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How Poetry Became a Tool of Resistance for Palestinians

Weeks before he was killed by an Israeli airstrike, Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer shared his 2011 poem If I Must Die. The persona then invites readers to make and fly white kites in his honor, so that a child in Gaza, who only knows hardship, “sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above/and thinks for a moment an angel is there/bringing back love.” Since his death in Northern Gaza on Dec. 6, his words have taken on new significance—not least for how they capture the civilian experience, but also for how they serve as a self-written eulogy for the late poet. ....

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Gaza poet Refaat Alareer's words live on in new translations

Several online users paid homage to Alareer by translating his poem into their mother tongues- as a nod to his work as a translator ....

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