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Sara Awad

Sara Awad is an English literature student living in Gaza City

<p>‘The war shaped me from the very first months. I entered it at 19 and emerged as a 21-year-old, forever changed, with no return to the old Sara’</p>
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In Gaza, what we have lost is bigger than our hearts

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