Culture‘Hope so heavy to carry’: Al-Shaer on Gaza’s plight, emotional toll and struggle to survive

Eve Irvine welcomes Palestinian writer and poet Mahmoud Al-Shaer to discuss his book, *I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza*. He reflects on how war reshapes memory, childhood and existence, recounting his family’s displacement, his daughter’s view of a world reduced to tents and his evacuation from Gaza. He describes writing as resistance to erasure.