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Assir

Eating in my dreams, starving in prison

03 December 2025

This episode presents a direct testimony about the experience of hunger inside prisons after October 7, and about how food became the central element of daily life in the cells. Omar recounts the impact of the starvation policy imposed on the prisoners, and how it shaped their dreams, their behavior, and their internal organization. From dreaming about food, to storing bread, to a rudimentary barter system, and finally to the tensions and solidarity among prisoners, a documentation of a life governed by severe scarcity, and of hunger turned into a tool of control and punishment.

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Assir

Humiliation hurts most

26 November 2025

Omar recounts how shock and helplessness intertwined in his early days of detention, and how systematic insults became a tool to subdue inmates and silence them through the threat of collective punishment. This is not merely an account of violations, but an attempt to understand how language itself becomes a precise weapon used to erode dignity and restrict any space for resistance within a system designed to strip away humanity.

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Assir

Interrupted Call

19 November 2025

Omar tells us, that during his first days in detention, he repeatedly told prisoners he had been traveling for ten days and hadn’t followed the news, a statement that became a recurring disappointment in every cell he entered. He explains how the circulation of news inside prison resembled an “interrupted call” shaped by fear, survival, and the hunger for hope.

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Assir

October the 7th changed the world

07 October 2025

Two years after October 7, 2023, Omar Al-Khatib, a Jerusalem-born researcher and released Palestinian detainee, reflects on his sixteen months in Israeli prisons. Through a five-episode series produced by Inkyfada, he documents life behind bars and the changes experienced by Palestinian prisoners since the start of the war on Gaza.

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Andek Swi3a?

Our stories with depression

13 March 2024

How has depression tested our strength and will, transforming our vision of life? What prejudices have we deconstructed and how do we perceive the complexity of this illness? In what ways have solitude and introspection led us to rethink our relationships and our being? How have we experienced the link between spirituality and managing depression, and what has been the influence of our environment on our journey towards healing?

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