{"id":707,"count":2,"description":"<table width=\"623\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td width=\"425\"><strong><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-25708 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yara-300x309.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"309\" \/>Yara Nasser<\/strong> is an 18-year-old writer and student who grew up\u2014and continues to live\u2014in Gaza City, Palestine.\u00a0She views writing as something akin to a bellybutton, connecting her to a personal identity molded by rupture, resistance, and reflection. Her interest in journalism and literature informs a mode of storytelling and war memorialization concerned less with representation than with witnessing, always seeking to stay as close to reality as possible. For her, writing is not merely catharsis, but a practice of excavation of truth, dignity, selfhood, and interior life in contexts where all are endangered. She writes to explore the emotional weight of survival and the fragile shape of identity. This book marks the beginning of her journey as a writer, but its roots reach far deeper into her lived experience.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/authors\/yara-nasser\/","name":"Yara Nasser","slug":"yara-nasser","taxonomy":"authors","parent":706,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/authors"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/706"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?authors=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}