Alaa's diary is an act of resistance. By Aayushi Rana What remains when everything vanishes?   A shadow?   A voice in the dark?   The echo of footsteps on stones that remember?   In Ibtisam Azem's   The Book of Disappearance , long listed for Booker Prize for Literature in 2025 , all Palestinians living in their original homeland occupied by Israel, vanish overnight .   Gone.   The streets of Jaffa in the West Bank  fall silent like after a storm has passed by.. Empty homes,

By Aayushi Rana. Can a poem stop a bullet?

By Aayushi Rana. In the silence, the cries of the past echo loudly, urging us to never forgive and forget, and ensure that the horrors of genocide are never to be repeated.