A Child From Gaza

By Ibrahim Isam

If I could, I would look for every child who was made to cry in front of a camera lens, one by one, and photograph them again, this time smiling.

Not to erase the images of their tears, nor to replace the truth with something more beautiful, but to give them another image—one no one forced upon them; an image in which the face belongs to them, the smile belongs to them, and the camera, finally, is on their side.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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