Anas, journalist, did not live to see his baby son

Yasmin Abu Shamala, a translator and writer from Gaza, and her journalist husband, Anas, learned she was pregnant just before the Gaza war began. If the baby was a boy, they decided they would name him Malik. 

Malik is now one year and four months old, but he never got to meet his father. Anas was killed while reporting from Gaza City.

Malik was the couple’s second child. Before the war, Yasmin writes, Anas had “poured himself into fatherhood” with his first son, Ibrahim, who is now three. But Yasmin is bringing up Malik alone.

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