We Do Hope with Enas Fares Ghannam & Walaa Sabbah
Finding hope in Gaza
Enas Fares Ghannam & Walaa Sabbah:
Finding hope in Gaza
Hope to me is everything.
Hope is knowing that you are valuable.
Hope is the key to life.
Season 1 | Episode 3
Jessie and Tilly chat with Enas Fares Ghannam and Walaa Sabbah live from Gaza City. Enas and Walla work with We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led Palestinian non-profit project in the Gaza Strip.
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Enas Fares Ghannam
Chosen as WANN project manager in November 2021, Enas Fares Ghannam earned a bachelor’s degree in English education from Al-Azhar University and a diploma in translation from the Islamic University of Gaza.
She is now WANN’s director and is currently close to completing a master’s degree in translation.
Walaa Sabbah
Walaa Sabbah is the community outreach and partnership officer at WANN. She has travelled to more than ten countries, and has done voluntary work in Africa, worked in Europe, taught children from East Asia and studied in the Middle East.
She finished her Bachelor’s degree in English arts and literature at the Islamic University of Gaza and the University of Warsaw.
Enas’s Hope In A Hurry
Hopeful Read:
I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
Hopeful Anthem:
I Breathe Freedom — Julia Boutros جوليا بطرس - بتنفس حرية
Walla’s Hope In A Hurry
Hopeful Read:
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Hopeful Watch:
Proctor Gallagher Institute (YouTube Channel)
Hopeful Anthem:
I Breathe Freedom — Julia Boutros جوليا بطرس - بتنفس حرية
You can follow Enas on Instagram and Twitter and Walla on Twitter. To find out more about We Are Not Numbers and to follow their socials, please visit their website here.
There are two virtual tours of Gaza that We Are Not Numbers have made for Amos Trust — the first was from February 2021 and the second from February 2022.
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