{"product_id":"i-am-still-alive-dispatches-from-gaza","title":"I Am Still Alive - Dispatches from Gaza","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kverlag.com\/blogs\/news\/mahmoud\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Palestinian poet and cultural worker Mahmoud M Al-Shaer documents life during the ongoing war in Gaza with breathtaking clarity and devastating intimacy. Composed as a series of dispatches written since January 11, 2024, the author uses his voice to record his struggle to hold onto words in resistance to erasure and whilst bearing witness to unbearable violence. These texts offer not just a relentless chronicle of destruction, but a vital affirmation of presence, relation, and survival amidst the unspeakable catastrophes unfolding in Gaza. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the wreckage of homes and futures, Al-Shaer builds language as shelter—raw, lyrical, defiant. His writing refuses the daily cruelty imposed by war and human rights violations, and demands the world pay attention. Each page pulses with an utterance that insists:\u003cem\u003e I am still alive.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMahmoud M Al-Shaer has dedicated this book to his three-year-old twins—Nai and Majd—now separated by nearly 1,000 kilometers and exposed to different traumas. All proceeds from the sale of \u003cem\u003eI Am Still Alive\u003c\/em\u003e (available in print and eBook formats) will go to the author to support his family and other Palestinians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMahmoud M Al-Shaer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, poet, and editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003e28 Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e as well as founder and head curator of 28 Gallery in Rafah, Palestine. Al-Shaer coordinated cultural projects in collaboration with visual artists and writers for the publishing house Khuta, for Al-Ghussein House in Gaza City (where he was cultural program coordinator), for Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation Palestine, and for Goethe-Institut Ramallah. He was co-curator of the New Alphabet School at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019–22) where he also co-edited (with Olga Schubert, Gigi Argyropoulou, an Rahul Gudipudi) edition #22 of DNA, the HKW’s publication series released adjacent to the program. He contributed to the 12th Berlin Biennial (2023) and was also part of two exhibitions by the Quattan Foundation in Ramallah (\u003cem\u003eInstant Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e, 2023 and \u003cem\u003eThe ­ Valley Trail\u003c\/em\u003e, 2021). Since the beginning of the ­ongoing war in Gaza, he has been working at the field hospital of the International Medical Corps (IMC) in ­Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brøglitteraturbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56078667481474,"sku":null,"price":270.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/3296\/2946\/files\/image_bf750f12-dac2-4597-bcfd-7ca31485f549.png?v=1765545846","url":"https:\/\/www.broeglitteraturbar.dk\/products\/i-am-still-alive-dispatches-from-gaza","provider":"Brøglitteraturbar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}