Mosab Abu Toha
مصعب أبو توها
1992–
Gaza, Palestine
A Gaza-born poet and librarian, Abu Toha writes from the everyday experience of siege, family, and the search for normalcy under bombardment.
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, essayist, and librarian from Gaza. He is the author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (2022), which won the Palestine Book Award and the Arrowsmith Press Prison Writing Award. He founded the Edward Said Library in Gaza, and his work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Poetry magazine.
In 2023–2024, Abu Toha was displaced by the war in Gaza and eventually evacuated with his family. His subsequent writing chronicles both survival and the effort to preserve ordinary life — teaching, reading, parenting — under conditions designed to destroy it.
Selected works
- Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022)
- Prayer in the Desert (2024)
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