Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a Palestinian writer, poet, and editor from Gaza, and a 19-year-old English literature student at the Islamic University of Gaza. Through her writing, she aims to amplify Gaza’s voice and bring to light stories that are too often left untold. She is a writer for We Are Not Numbers (WANN) and has collaborated with, and had her work featured in, leading international platforms, including Al Jazeera English, The Intercept, The Nation, Truthout, Middle East Eye, The New Arab, Middle East Monitor, Mondoweiss, The Markaz Review, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The Electronic Intifada, The Palestine Chronicle, Institute for Palestine Studies, Prism, Politics Today, Social Text, The Massachusetts Review, ArabLit Quarterly, Baladi Magazine, Opol, and Palestine deeb dive.
She is a 2025 Poetry of the Camps–Gaza Fellow through Illuminated Cities and also serves as an editor for Baladi Magazine, where her poetry has been published, as well as in Opol, combining her passion for both writing and editing to elevate voices that need to be heard. To read all her works, click here: https://tqwaportfolio-project.
By Taqwa:
Books as Breath: Gaza’s Living Story