Love Letters to Baba

A deeply personal and politically resonant collection of poetry by N Mo’alla, the grandchild of Nakba survivors. What began as a private act of mourning — for her late father and in response to the ongoing occupation of Palestine — evolved into a powerful tapestry of memory, resistance, and ancestral love.

Through intimate, unflinching verse, Mo’alla explores themes of exile, inherited grief, language loss, and the enduring spirit of Palestinian sumud (steadfastness). These letters to Baba are as much about personal loss as they are about collective survival — asserting Palestinian existence in the face of attempted erasure.

Blending poetic lyricism with historical weight, Love Letters to Baba refuses nostalgia and instead embraces a radical, grounded hope: not the passive promise of return, but the vow of it.