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

https://mins.news/en/video/98071

- France 24 English, 2026-10-13 13:36 UTC
- Culture
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wcBFSN_ygA

> 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.

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