A Diary of Darkness, Samah Zaqout / Zines from Gaza, Coastal Lines press

A follow-up to the award-winning zine, In the Depth of Gaza, this collection of poetry and narrative articles is a profound and unnerving portrait of a genocide administered through successive wars and endless cycles of displacement and scarcity. Beginning with the author’s experience of war as a child and ending with her father’s search for flour, the diary is like a flickering candle in a spiraling downward passageway that has no end in sight.

About the Author

Samah Zaqout is a Palestinian writer, translator, and lecturer based in Gaza. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts, English literature, as one of the top students, and worked as an English lecturer at the university, a translator at a local institution, and an online tutor on Preply. Samah shares her writings on Medium and Substack and has contributed to Politics Today, Electronic Intifida, and We Are Not Numbers.