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The Melbourne-based Palestinian journalist and poet on life in Australia, her memories of Gaza and living in two worlds

In 1962, poet and Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur took the stand in Jerusalem in the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Dinur was a much-anticipated witness, bearing the audience’s hope this man, a poet, would be able to explain – to capture and to transmit – the experience of…

The 22-year-old, who went viral for her chronicling of the war, tells Bankstown Poetry Slam about life under bombardment in Gaza

The dangers of covering the crisis aren’t limited to front-line reporting. They’re playing out behind the scenes in North American newsrooms too

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

Plestia Alaqad went from Instagrammer to reporter after her footage of Israel’s assault on besieged enclave went viral

More than 60 journalists and media workers have been killed so far, most of them Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Gaza's journalists have reported while also suffering personal losses.

Her social media dispatches offered firsthand accounts of the devastation and growing crisis