Gaza-born writer and playwright Ahmed Masoud is greatest identified for his debut novel, Vanished, which garnered crucial popularity of its riveting portrayal of life beneath Israeli occupation. He has written a detective story set in Gaza referred to as Come What Could and a black comedy, The Shroud Maker, instructed by means of the eyes of an 80-year-old seamstress, whose enterprise making burial cloths in Gaza is all the time booming.
Throughout Israel’s siege of Gaza, Ahmed Masoud’s household and siblings had 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 facility of literature in retaining alive one’s reminiscences of residence and the way writing poetry has helped him cope together with his brother’s loss of life in addition to the continuing destruction of Gaza.
