"IF I MUST DIE"🌷

Salam all,

👆 Dr. Refaat Alareer 

👆 Poem "If I must die"

Song "If I must die" :

https://youtu.be/sCP1KF2mDhk?si=LR81SLZFV4ttmrDv

🌷 Alareer was born in Gaza City in 1979 during the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, which he stated had usually negatively influenced every move and decision he made. Alareer earned a BA in English in 2001 from the Islamic University of Gaza and an MA from University College London in 2007. He earned a PhD in English Literature at the Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2017 with a dissertation on John Donne.

He taught literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and co-founded the organization We Are Not Numbers, which matched experienced authors with young writers in Gaza, and promoted the power of storytelling as a means of Palestinian resistance.

On 6 December 2023, Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, along with his brother, sister and her three children, during the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. The Euro-Med Monitor released a statement saying that Alareer was apparently deliberately targeted, "surgically bombed out of the entire building", and came after weeks of "death threats that Refaat received online and by phone from Israeli accounts."

🌷 Al-fatihah for Dr. Alareer...🤲

May Allah swt accept all his good deeds and also accept him as one of His syuhada....Ameen yra🤲

🌷The legacy of Dr. Alareer :

https://youtu.be/aRd3q3Fl3D4?si=lgKmOAVwBLTJ-0WG

🌷 The poet of Gaza...Dr. Alareer :

https://youtu.be/i6JfnyV9bpI?si=gPX09Hb7374-JQLh

🌷Harvard students protesting using the poem by Dr. Alareer :

 https://youtube.com/shorts/gVD8vnNwavM?si=Kj2naQ8bVPslhdLx

😭...Yuzita❤️Palestine