Gaza-born writer and playwright Ahmed Masoud is greatest identified for his debut novel, Vanished, which garnered vital approval for its riveting portrayal of life beneath Israeli occupation. He has written a detective story set in Gaza known as Come What Might and a black comedy, The Shroud Maker, informed via the eyes of an 80-year-old seamstress, whose enterprise making burial cloths in Gaza is at all times booming.
Throughout Israel’s siege of Gaza, Ahmed Masoud’s household and siblings have been trapped in Jabalia refugee camp. On January 22, 2023, Ahmed’s brother was killed by Israeli forces.
Within the fourth episode of Reframe, Fatima Bhutto interviews Masoud on the ability of literature in retaining alive one’s recollections of residence and the way writing poetry has helped him cope along with his brother’s dying in addition to the continuing destruction of Gaza.
