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  • The Last Time I Opened a Refrigerator Door Was October 2023

    A Forgotten War, A Lingering Struggle It’s hard to remember what life was like before—the days when opening a refrigerator door was a mundane, thoughtless act rather than a distant memory. Before the war in Gaza, before the ceasefire that promised relief but never truly came, before survival became a daily battle against hunger, thirst,…

  • Rising from the Rubble – A Teacher’s Journey of Hope in Gaza

    The war had ended, and I returned to my devastated home. As I walked over the rubble, a deep sense of disappointment and heartbreak engulfed me. I wished it were just a brief nightmare that would soon pass, but, unfortunately, this was my reality. Half of our home was gone, but we managed to arrange…

  • 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦 🌙

    Ramadan is one of the holiest months in Islam, marking the time when the Quran was first revealed to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). It is a month of spiritual reflection, self-discipline, and increased devotion. Fasting during Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, making it an essential practice for Muslims worldwide. Ramadan Mubarak from…

  • A Father, a Son, and a Name That Holds a Legacy

    Life has a way of weaving sorrow and joy together into heartbreaking and beautiful moments. My name is Ahmad, and I’ve been living in the shadow of the Gaza war for over a year now. In this time of uncertainty and loss, I’ve found myself clinging to memories, hope, and, most recently, the fragile miracle…

  • A Place to Heal

    Throughout our bodies there are amazing systems of self-repair, of maintenance and healing. When we experience a scratch, histamine floods the area, bringing specialized cells that create a criss-cross scaffolding for other cells to do their work, to grow new skin. In the brain there are cells, glial cells, that make sure the other cells…

  • GGM in SPACE!

    When I first started working with GGM I learned about the thrice weekly “Twitter Spaces.”  (yes, I know the site is called “X” now but forgive me for not embracing that. It will always be Twitter in my heart.) “Spaces” as they are commonly called were completely new to me. It was super easy to…

  • Planting Seeds of Hope: Education Against War

    War is ugly and war is chaos. War is about destruction, killing, and war is about psychological devastation. Children are the most vulnerable group in any war and we need to nourish and protect them. Safety is a basic human need. There is no safety in a war zone. But we can make the children…

  • Resilience in Gaza: A Boy, a Girl, and a Test

    In Gaza City, where the sun rose reluctantly over a landscape marred by war, a boy named Khaled sat at a makeshift desk, trying to focus on his math test. His pencil trembled in his hand, not from the complexity of the problems, but from the constant drone of aircraft and the distant, ominous booms…

  • Farah’s Smile: Resilience Amidst the Rubble 

    In the heart of Gaza, amidst the rubble and ruin, the spirit of an 11-year-old girl named Farah shines brightly. Farah’s life has been marked by loss and hardship that many of us can scarcely imagine. She lost her father and her uncle in a strike hit their apartment by Israeli occupation, a brutal reminder…

  • Color is Life

    Imagine your whole world being drained of color. Everything in black & white. That’s what’s happened in Gaza.  Even the beautiful blue sky is obscured by clouds of debris and smoke. Piles of grey concrete rubble everywhere. No more trees and plants. No more warm home interiors with curtains and rugs and furniture. Just black…