Mohammed Al Qudwa

Mohammed Al Qudwa is a Palestinian poet, writer and artist from Gaza. A top-level karate athlete on the national team, he is also a computer science student. He runs creative writing workshops in collaboration with several major cultural institutions, such as the Tamer Institute for Community Education in Gaza and the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF) in Egypt. In 2022, he published his first novel in Arabic, The Final destination (or Last destination) as well as several poems now translated into English and French. Since 2025, he has been based in France thanks to the SAWA SAWA program, then as a laureate of the PAUSE program supported by the Collège de France. He has been invited to read his poems at the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Naples' theater festival, and takes part in the Jeunes ESTivants and the Festival d'Avignon in 2025. He was invited to Théâtre en mai 2025 to read his poems as part of Radio en mai, the festival's radio station, and took part in La Semaine des écritures contemporaines du TDB in December 2025.