Saga Hamdan is a Palestinian author, activist, and social health researcher from Gaza, currently based in the UK. Her work centers on memory, survival, and life under siege and genocide, and has received multiple local and international literary awards.

Her debut novel This Stone Is Mine (2024) explores memory, love, and resistance under siege, and her short fiction has appeared in ArabLit Quarterly. She writes at the intersection of literature and social justice, focusing on Palestinian life, exile, and survival.

Saga was recently invited to speak at PEN International's 91st Congress in Krakòw, Poland, and her visa was inexplicably rejected, highlighting the limits placed on mobility that affects the free expression of many, especially young voices. She wrote about this experience for Electronic Intifada and spoke remotely and passionately to the Writers in Peace Committee about starvation being used as a weapon of war in Gaza, overcoming borders and bureaucratic blocks. 

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