The face before you is a one of a kind human and emotional document from Gaza.

This collection confronts the weight of generational trauma, the fragility of memory, and the indelible scars of genocide. Moussa refuses to let Gaza's voice fade or be obliterated.

the face before you,

marred with blood and unseen wounds,

bears the scars of hope and peace

that the world pledged to me.

It's the visage of a childhood

lost beneath the rubble,

alongside my family

and the city that I can no longer see.

This is the third collection from writer, journalist and podcaster Mohammed Moussa. It is published in February 2026, and launched at Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street on 27th January 2026.

"This book is a portal to a Palestinian experience. It offers you access – through steadfast, and devastating poetry – to the gift that Palestinians have given and continue to give to the world. This book is a piece of the Palestinian struggle. Its pages offer a connection to a people who in the face of unimaginable injustice and hopelessness, nevertheless assert their humanity, their solidarity and their connection to their land again and again. Mohammad Moussa’s poems are a window into the unimaginable hell of surviving a genocide. They are the desperate fractured record of a war, and at the same time a monument to survival and resistance. Moussa has made a great well of life and poetry here, amidst the cruelty and deprivation that Israel forces upon Gaza."

HENRY BELL

  

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ABOUT MOHAMMED MOUSSA

Mohammed Moussa is a Palestinian poet, podcast host and founder of the Gaza Poets Society — a platform for emerging voices from Gaza and beyond. Born and raised in Gaza, he now lives in Turkey, where he continues to write and build connections across borders.