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