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Where is She?
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|January 11, 2024
Batool Abu Akleen, a teenage poet from Gaza, last posted on October 23. Her social media handles went silent after that
THERE has been no news of Batool Abu Akleen since October 23, the last time she posted anything on any social media platform. A two-month absence brings the worst question to the fore: is she alive? “Two days ago, I was preparing myself to go to university, and now I am preparing myself for an expected death,” she wrote in a social media post on October 9. The ‘war’ was only in its third day.
Akleen, who started making a mark as a poet, turned an adult this year. She has been a member of the literature circle at the Qattan Foundation in Gaza and led a literature group called “Yaraat” at the Tamer Institute for Community Education. Her Facebook profile describes her as ‘The daughter of the sea and the city, coffeeholic, a poet, an artist, and a dreamer.’
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