User:Kabyle Editor/Alaa al-Qatrawi
Dr Alaa al-Qatrawi | |
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 Alaa al-Qatrawi at the Sharjah Arabic Poetry Festival in 2023. | |
| Native name | Alaa Naim Ali al-Qatrawi |
| Born | November 3, 1990 |
| Pen name | "خنساء فلسطين" |
| Occupation | |
| Language | Arabic |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Citizenship |  Palestine |
| Education | PhD in Arabic literature |
| Alma mater | Islamic University of Gaza |
| Genre | Poetry, Novel, Essay |
| Notable awards |
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| Children | |
| Parents | Naim Ali al-Qatrawi, (Father) |
| Website | |
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Alaa al-Qatrawi (Arabic: آلاء القطراوي, romanized: Ālāʾ al-Qaṭrāwī; born November 3, 1990) is a Palestinian poet and writer.[1] She is nicknamed "The Khansa of Palestine", (Arabic: "خنساء فلسطين") for her poetic talent and literary role, and for her touching poetry that speaks about loss and resilience, inspired by the tragic loss of her four children during the war.[2]
Alaa al-Qatrawi received her Phd degree in Arabic literature from the Islamic University of Gaza in 2022.[3] In the same year, she won a Saud al-Babtain Prize for Poetic Creativity for her Diwan (collection) of poetry titled "A Waterwheel Trying to Sing ", romanized: (Sāqiya tuḥāwilu al-ghinā’).[4] She tragically lost her four children in December 2023, when Israeli forces bombed their house in Khan Yunis, during the war launched by the Israeli occupation following the October 7th, 2023 attacks.[5]
Biography
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Alaa al-Qatrawi was born in Gaza in November 3rd, 1990.[6] She is the daughter of Naim Ali al-Qatrawi who is originally from Qatra, Palestine.[7] She completed her elementary and secondary education in Gaza before joining the Institut of Arabic Studies at the Islamic University of Gaza in 2008, where she continued her university studies. She earned her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree in Arabic literature, graduating with a PhD in 2022.[8]
Career
[edit]In addition being poet and writer, Dr Alaa al-Qatrawi worked as an Arabic language teacher in UNRWA schools. There, she developed various educational materials. She also served as a language editor for educational texts and adapted them into animated stories for the UNRWA channel.
Alaa had also worked in journalism and radio, hosting the poetry program "On the Euphrates of the poetry" on the Palestinian Ministry of Education's Educational Radio, and "Conversation of the soul" on the Islamic University of Gaza's radio.
Participation
[edit]Among her various festival participations, the poet Alaa al-Qatrawi notably took part in the 7th season of the "Prince of Poets" competition in 2017. She advanced to the final stage.[9] Alaa began by qualifying among the top 150 poets with her submitted poem, then progressed through improvisation rounds to reach the select group of the top twenty poets. She has appeared on television and represented Palestine on one of the major culturel stages in the Arab world.[10][11]
Distinctions and Honors
[edit]In addition for her brillant academic background, Alaa al-Qatrawi has distinguished herself both inside and outside Palestine as one of the most prominent and talented Arabic poets. she also has an impressive poetic career. Alaa was awarded "The Best Youth Collection Prize" by Abdulaziz Saud al-Babtain Cultural Foundation for her poetry collection "A Waterwheel Trying to Sing" (Sāqiyatun Tuḥāwilu al-Ghinā’).[12][13] This significant accolade was part of the 18th edition of The Abdulaziz Saud al-Babtain Prize for Poetic Creativity. Her winning poetry collection, titled "A Waterwheel Trying to Sing", earned her a prize worth $10,000.[14]
This particular competition attracts substantial participation from across the arabe world. For the 2021 edition, the " Best Youth Poetry Collection " category, which honored Dr Alaa al-Qatrawi, received 98 submissions out of total of 826 entries across all prize categories. Her success in such a competitive field underscores the quality and resonance of her creative work.[15][16]
Alaa also received the "Palestinian Creativity Award", established by the Kuwaiti poet and patron Souad al-Sabah,, as part of " The Souad al-Sabah Prize for Literary Creativity 2023-2024 ", for her poetry collection titled "A Tent in the Sky" (Khayma fī al-Samāʾ).[17][18]
Souad al-Sabah stated that the Alaa al-Qatrawi's poetry was selected for its profound themes, artistic mastery, and stylistic maturity. The poems depict the enduring tragedy faced by the people of Gaza and are inspired by al-Qatrawi's personal loss of her four children --"Yamen", "Kinan", "Orchid", and "Carmel" --- during an airstrike in Khan Yunes in December 2023.[19][20]
Furthermore, Alaa al-Qatrawi has won numerous prizes throughout her career. In 2011, she was awarded " The Palestine Youth Creativity Award ", along with '''The Gold Medal for Best Poetry Collection'''.[21]
In addition, the poet al-Qatrawi won " The Best Poem in Palestine Award " for her beautiful poem entitled "Desert's Lovers" (Āshiqat al-Ṣaḥrā) in 2017. One years after, in 2018, The Ministry of Women's affaire recognizing her as an " Outstanding Palestinian Women in the Field of Poetry ".[22]
In prose's work, Alaa also won first place in " The Short Story Category " at the Arab World in the "Those Stories for Creativity"(Tilka al-Qiṣaṣ lil-Ibdāʿ) competition organized in cooperation between the Jordanian publishing house (Dār Faḍāʾāt li-l-Nashr wa-l-Tawzīʿ al-Urdunī) and China Intercontinental Press. Her story was subsequently translated into Chinese.[23][24]
The Tragic Death of Alaa al-Qatrawi's Children
[edit]On December 1st, 2023, during military operations in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces surrounded the family home of Alaa al-Qatrawi's four children, who where living there with there grandmother, uncle, and uncle's wife.[25]
After several days of siege, Alaa al-Qatrawi was able to communicate with her children by phone. Her older son Yamen (8 years old), managed to make intermittent phone calls to his mother, and provided direct testimony about the unfolding events. During these calls, Yamen reported that the occupying forces had blown up the water and gas facilities in their home, destroyed its contents, and that military vehicles had begun demolishing parts of the building and its surrounding wall, with tanks and snipers surrounding the area and preventing them from leaving.[26]
These phone calls between Alaa and her children remained the only source of information about their situation. She subsequently spoke with Yamen, Kinan and Orchid, who expressed fear, while the youngest child, Carmel, kept calling for her mother, shouting "Mama! Mama!" which were the last words Alaa heard from her children before communication was permanently cut off on December 13, 2023.[27]
On February 21st, 2024, it was confirmed that the home was completely destroyed by shelling, and all the children and family members inside were killed. Their were later recovered from under the rubble.[28]
Legacy and International Solidarity
[edit]The event in Colombia
[edit]In September 2025, Alaa al-Qatrawi gained attention in Colombia after her open letter to President Gustavo Petro, published on the Sotour platform, and translated into English on the Substack. The letter was read by President Petro. Then, he wrote on Sunday, September 28th 2025, at 7:26 PM on his X account (formerly twitter): "Una carta me llega de Palestina.." (A letter reaches me from Palestine).[29] This event was covered by Colombian National Radio and state television RTVC Noticias.[30]And the letter was read live on air by several journalists due it strong humanitarian and political message.[31]
The letter expressed her appreciation as a Palestinian woman for President Petro's stance during his speech at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (September 2025), in which he condemned what he described as "the genocide taking place in Gaza" and called on nations worldwide to act to liberate the Palestinian people from Israeli occupation.[32][33][34][35]
Mother's March for the Children of Palestine
[edit]
On 15 June 2025, a collective of mothers, led by French activist "Céline Lebrun al-Ash'ath" and her association team, organized a gathering at the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. [36]
They called for a ceasefire, an end to the killing of children in Gaza, the entry of the humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip, and the protection of the rights of Palestinian children.[37]
According to the United Nations, around 40,000 children have been killed by the Israeli army since October 7th, and that continue to rise day after day. As mothers, they wish to remind the world that protecting children is an international obligation.[38]
During the event, Céline Lebrun highlighted the story of poet Alaa al-Qatrawi and her symbolic role as a representation of the steadfast Palestinian mother. al-Qatrawi's poem "Orchid" was recited in solidarity with her and with Palestinian mothers who had lost their children due to the war in Gaza.[39][40]
The Drôme Solidarity Initiative in France
[edit]During September 2025, a group from the Drôme region of France, led by the French farmer and writer "Mathieu Yon", organized a three-week sit-in near the French Parliament Building in Paris, calling for the evacuation of poet Alaa al-Qatrawi to France under the "PAUSE" program to enable her to continue her postdoctoral studies and research.[41]
The initiative followed by Mathieu when he read the poem of poet Alaa entitled "My Orchid". He is deeply moved by the poem and by the situation in Gaza. He is initiated the demonstration as the public call to the French Government, which had suspended visa issuance for students from Gaza seeking to pursue their studies in France. [42]The goal of this movement was to lift this suspension and allow Gazan students to enter France, with Dr Alaa Al-Qatrawi at the forefront. The initiative received from many Frenche public figures including members of parliament, poets and activists.[43]
Marcel Khalifa's Song Tribute
[edit]
In January 2024, after the 1st ceasefire in Gaza, the Lebanese composer and singer Marcel Khalifa dedicated the song "Oh Breeze of the wind" (Ya Nassīm al-Rīḥ) to Alaa al-Qatrawi. The dedication was inspired after he hearing one of her essays which deeply moved him. The dedication was seen as a gesture of solidarity and admiration for al-Qatrawi's poetry work reflecting the endurance and grief of Palestinian mothers.[44][45] [46]
Through this tribute, "Marcel Khalifa" introduced al-Qatrawi's work to a broader Arab and international audience, reinforcing cultural and humanitarian ties between Lebanon and Palestine.
Alaa's essay, read by Marcel Khalifa
[edit]When the war ends !
When the war ends,
I will not fear the rain.
I will not fear standing by the window, nor will I close the curtains, and I will brush away the dust from the doorstep of our home. If I do not find it—our home shattered by enemy—I will embrace its rubble, because every stone of it is my home.
I will stand on the seashore for hours, lost in my drifting thoughts, and I will not fear the sight of a warship separating us.
I will kiss the hands of the paramedics and civil defence workers, for whenever I heard the sound of an airstrike above us, I would lose my voice and my ability to move, while they crossed through the debris, shouting loudly : " Can any one hear me ? Is any one alive ?"
I will not fear dying from cold on one of the pavements of displacement. It pains me that my heart might suddenly freeze, when I had lit it as firewood to warm the orphans and the bereaved.
I will sip my coffee the way I love it, with the voice of Fairouz, and my be I will cry when she sing " The Winter withers" (wi-yidhbili ish-shitāʼ). I never Knew how winter could wither except in the winters of this harsh war.
And every Sunday morning at eight-thirty, I will walk down the long street without fear to embrace my children, Who now lie in the cemetery.
Alaa al-Qatrawi
Gaza, January 19, 2024
Works
[edit]Poetry collections (Diwan)
[edit]- "When the Air Trembles", (Ḥīna Yartajifu al-Hawā’)
- published by Palestinian Writers and Authors Association, 2021.
- "A Waterwheel Trying to Sing", (Sāqiyatun Tuḥāwilu al-Ghinā’)
- published by Abu Dhabi poetry Academy, 2021.
- "The Birds Steal My Bread", (Al-‘Aṣāfīru Tasriqu Khabzī)
- published by Mosaic Publishing and Distribution, 2022.
- "A Tente in The Sky", (Khaymatun fī al-Samā’)
- published by Souad al-Sabah publishing, 2025.
- "My Butterfly That Never Dies", (Farāshatī allatī Lā Tamūt)
- published by Arab Fondation for Studies and Publishing, 2025.
Prose
[edit]- "From Distance Zero- Letters under War", (Mina al-Masāfati Ṣifr – Rasā’ilun Taḥta al-Ḥarb)
- Co-writer: Rana al-Ali
- published by al-Qamari Publishing, 2015
- "Kinan Is Speaking To Me", (Yukallimunī Kinān)
- published by Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing, 2025
Literary Criticism
[edit]- "Mirrors In The Adonis's Poetry": A Semiotic Studies, (Al-Marāyā fī Shi‘r Adonis)
- published by Mosaic Publishing and Distribution, 2022.
Poetic plays
[edit]- "Orchid", (Urkīda)
- publishing by Dar al-Fikr for Publishing, 2025
Awards
[edit]- Antoun Saadeh Literary Prize, (2025) - First prize in the theater category for the play "Orchid" (Urkīda)
- Khalifa Award "The Palm through poets's voices", (2025) - Third prize for the poem "The Exodus of The Palms" (Nuzūḥ al-Nakhīl)
- Souad al-Sabah Prize for Palestinian Creativity, (2025) - For the poetry collection "A Tente in The Sky" (Khaymatun fī al-Samā’)
- Fadwa Tuqan Poetry Award, (2024) - For the poetry collection "The Birds Steal My Bread" (Al-‘Aṣāfīru Tasriqu Khabzī)
- Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Prize for Poetic Creativity [[2]], (2022) - For the poetry collection "A Waterwheel Trying to Sing" (Sāqiyatun Tuḥāwilu al-Ghinā’)
- Best Poem Prize for the poem entitled , (2017) - For the poem "The Desert Lover" (ʿĀshiqat al-Ṣaḥrāʾ)
- Palestine Young Creatives Awards, (2011)
Links
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- ^ "أمّ لأربعة شهداء.. الشاعرة آلاء القطراوي تفوز بجائزة سعاد الصباح (Mother of Four Martyrs… Poet Alaa al-Qatrawi Wins the Souad Al-Sabah Prize)". www.alwakaai.com (in Arabic). 2025-05-06.
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- ^ "مارسيل خليفة يهدي الغزية آلاء القطراوي أغنية (شاهد) (Marcel Khalifa dedicates a song to the Gazan poet Alaa al-Qatrawi)". al-Arabi 21. 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-11-10.
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