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I was too young to have witnessed this myself; I was only two in 1985. The entry in Tata’s diary, dated August 20 of that year, notes that she had heard deeply upsetting news on TV. I assemble the rest of the scene with recycled anecdotes, which is easy to do, because that evening has become the stuff of family folklore.

In this episode of The Amargi Mosaic, host Elif Sarican speaks with Yara Hawari about how different forms of storytelling — from her novel The Stone House to oral history — shape Palestinian political and social narratives. They explore how Palestinian women navigate the dual pressures of living under occupation and confronting internal patriarchal structures, including the social expectations surrounding grief and mourning.

Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not a ‘violation of the ceasefire’. It is a continuing genocide under diplomatic cover.