Nahil Mohana

Nahil Mohana is a writer and educator born in 1982 in Gaza City, Palestine. English translations of her war diaries have been published in AGNI, Granta, Lit Hub, The Berlin Literary Review, and The Washington Post; in the anthologies Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide (Comma Press, 2025) and Palestine is everywhere (Silver Press / the87press, 2025). She is the author of the novel Mamnu’ dukhul al-rijal (Arab Scientific Publishers, 2021); the short story collection Hayah fi mitr murabba’ (The Ugarit Cultural Center, 2008); a YA novel, Yasin 90; and six plays. Mohana is a graduate of Al-Azhar University and teaches creative writing to children and young adults in Gaza. (updated 10/2026)