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From Zarzis to Tunis, exiles demonstrate against the lack of UNHCR protection
23 April 2022
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In Parentheses
17 December 2025
In early November 2024, Omar recalls his transfer after eight months in prison to a new cell, where he began to experience the hardest period of his life due to a scabies outbreak, and his meeting with new cellmates, including Osama and Saif, who played an important role in supporting him emotionally, amid his fears of having his identity exposed and his connection to stigmatized human rights causes.
Series
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.
Series
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.
Series
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.
Series
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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