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Displaced by war and scattered across the archipelago, Palestinian students are pressing on for themselves; as well as those they left behind.
Transposed poetry: Palestinian poet Haya Abu Nasser speaks about her journey from Palestine to Indonesia through Egypt and Malaysia on Sept. 22, 2024, during an interview with The Jakarta Post at the Empu Sendok Arts Station (ESAS) in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta. (JP/Radhiyya Indra)
Even after moving to Jakarta, Samaa Mwafaq carries a mark of war on her face: a small scar beneath her eyebrow, possibly left by a piece of shrapnel from an Israeli bombardment in 2023 on a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she was volunteering.“I didn’t even notice it. Only later, after the bombings subsided, a fellow doctor told me that there was blood on my face. I thought it was from a patient I was tending to,” Samaa, 22, told The Jakarta Post by phone in March.
