Haya Abu Nasser is a Palestinian human rights activist and writer whose family is originally from Deir-Sneid. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature and humanitarian sciences, and was employed by several non-governmental organizations in Palestine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in AGNI, Scoundrel Time, Evergreen Review, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and MIZNA. Abu Nasser, who was internally displaced within Gaza for five months, recently managed to cross the border at Rafah so she could enroll in a graduate program in international affairs in Malaysia.
