Mohammed R. Mhawish is a contributor to The New Yorker and New York Magazine and a contributing reporter to the Palestine Reporting Lab. His work has also appeared in MSNBC, This American Life, The Economist, The Nation, Al Jazeera, among other outlets.
Mhawish is a recipient of several journalism awards, including two from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, the Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and the Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism. In 2025, he was named Storyteller of the Year by the Institute for Middle East Understanding.”
https://www.mohammedmhawish.com/
After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can’t return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes.
Every movement that claimed to speak for Palestinians has failed them. The next chapter must belong to those who have endured the devastation.
Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.