A review by misspalah
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die.

Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves,

every time the rubble piles up on our heads,

we are awakened from our temporary death.

• MY CITY AFTER WHAT HAPPENED SOME TIME AGO : Things You may find hidden in my Ear by Mosab Abu Toha 

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How do you rate or review poems that fully captured of what is going on in Gaza and Palestine in its entirety? I dont think i can. My heart broke in pieces, my eyes were brimming with tears everytime i flipped every pages and my kept on praying and chanting ‘InsyaAllah, Palestine will be free! More than 90 days already pass and countless killings has been done by IDF yet the world stood by and just watch it. Thousands were being displaced, House were being bombarded, Civillians were shot, Hospitals were running out the capacity and being attacked simultaneously, People were starved BUT at the same time , those western countries that has been preaching about human rights kept on defending Israel or how Hamas should have not started the attack on 7 October while ignoring the ugly realities that has been experienced by Palestinians since 1948. I have no words for this. I dont think i will teach my students about UN, Human Rights and all that nonsense shit that came from US, UK and all their allies in enabling this genocide. At the end of the day, i am Southeast Asian Muslim with a brown skin. That alone will surely put me in the category ‘not white, not worth it, no human rights applicable here’.  I will just be another collateral damage or somehow just number of lives as to how western medias has been biasedly targetting and framing Palestinian lives in their news narratives. I know i was supposed to write a review but i think my rant is enough to highlight the injustice here. At the end of the day, the key takeaway for this book is it is important and must be read by all because via author’s heartwrenching prose, we can see how the author illustrate how his lives, hometown, heritages, family members and even neighborhood gone after being obliterated by the zionists.