‘A Homeland Made of Words’: The Lexicon of Displacement in Gaza

By Fatima Skaik

This poignant piece examines how the displaced in Gaza create a language of memory, loss, and survival amid the ongoing genocide.

In the journey of displacement, families do not merely carry their belongings—they carry new words, sentences woven from pain, shock, and fear, and a geography that seeps out of language. 

In Gaza, displacement was not just a physical movement but a…