Capturing the Awful Truth of Gaza
One of My Students Tells the Story of a Gazan Who Was Forced to Flee
This is a short post designed to give greater exposure to a piece written by one of my Fall 2024 students in our Digital New Reporting and Writing class. Yazan Mohammad reported and wrote this important piece in class and should be proud to have it appear in Mondoweiss.
It tells the story of Basma Alafifi, who fled Gaza and is now studying at Rutgers. Mohammad’s piece is an example of deep reporting that captures the truth of the news we see on TV and read on our devices, and breaks it down to its most human elements.
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