Atef Abu Saif is the minister of culture for the Palestinian Authority. After 84 days, Atef Abu Saif left Gaza. Here, he reflects on what he endured. Feb 8, 2024 / Atef Abu Saif “The List of My Lost ...

More excerpts from the diaries of writer Atef Abu Saif. Rafah, December 4, 2023. For the last few months, The Nation has been running excerpts from the Gaza diaries of Atef Abu Saif, a writer and the ...

Don’t Look Left is culture minister Atef Abu Saif’s ‘shockingly graphic’ day-by-day account of life in Gaza since the 7 October attacks A day-by-day account of life in Gaza since the 7 October attacks ...

No one truly thought the truce would last. For Gazans, war is like the weather: it just comes and goes On Tuesday 21 November, after intensified shelling by tanks, Atef and some of his family made the ...

NewsAfter the Hamas attack and Israel's retaliation, the Palestinian Authority's culture minister, Atef Abu Saif, has kept a diary of his time in the Gaza Strip. In ...

Atef Abu Saif is the author of six novels and since 2019 has been minister of culture for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. The house where I grew up, where I was born, was destroyed a ...

Atef Abu Saif is the author of six novels and since 2019 has been minister of culture for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. My mother-in-law passed away in her tent in the Gazan city of ...

Atef Abu Saif’s wartime diaries offer a chilling voice of witness from Israel’s 50-day bombardment of Palestine during Operation Protective Edge. Sammy Al-Sheikh and his wife, Maha, walk with their ...

'Living through a war is like having to renew your contract with life every day': Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif's diary from Gaza After the Hamas attack and Israel's retaliation, the Palestinian ...

Atef Abu Saif is the author of “Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide” (Comma Press) We survivors of this war are searching for our broken families. But, even so, we must count ourselves as victors.