Ruwaida Kamal Amer

Ruwaida Kamal Amer is a science teacher from Khan Younis in Gaza who since the outbreak of the present conflict has written widely about its devastating effects on people of all ages. She has powerfully described the experiences of women and children, the terror evoked by constant Israeli bombardments and, as here, the emptiness and despair associated with starvation. Despite the bleakness of the events to which she bears witness her commitment to her people and culture, to the education of children, to overcoming violence and hunger, offer poignant sources of hope in the midst of the darkness.