Nidal AlFqaawy

a Palestinian poet from the city of Khan Younis. He was forcibly displaced to Rafah after Israeli occupation snipers seized his home, his library, and the “poetry retreat” where he had written and worked for years, before throwing his books from the upper floor and setting the place on fire. He works in the field of counselling and psychosocial support for children and young people, and has been writing poetry for many years. His texts have been published in local and Arab cultural and literary magazines. His first poetry collection, Noon: Poems in the Cobbler’s Cart, won joint first prize in the Young Artist Competition in 2015.