Mosab Abu Toha

Abu Toha was born in 1992 in the Al-Shati refugee camp, shortly before the signing of the Oslo Accords. He graduated in English from the Islamic University of Gaza. In 2017, he founded the Edward Said Library, an English-language public library in Beit Lahia, of which a second branch was opened in Gaza City in 2019.

In 2023, Abu Toha graduated from Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative writing.{{cite web |first=Renée K. |last=Gadoua |title='My Poetry Is a Record of What Happened' Says Palestinian MFA Student Mosab Abu Toha G'23 |website=Syracuse University News | date=May 2, 2023 |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2023/05/02/my-poetry-is-a-record-of-what-happened-says-mfa-student-mosab-abu-toha-g23/ |access-date=16 April 2024 }}{{cite news |last1=Chouinard |first1=Kyle |title=Palestinian poet, SU alum Mosab Abu Toha released from Israeli detention |url=https://dailyorange.com/2023/11/mosab-abu-toha-detained-syracuse-university-poet/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The Daily Orange |date=21 November 2023}}

Abu Toha taught English at United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in Gaza from 2016 until 2019, and is the founder of the Edward Said Library, the only English-language library in Gaza.{{Cite web |title=Mosab Abu Toha |url=https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/people/mosab-abu-toha |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=Harvard Divinity School |language=en}} In 2019–20 he was a visitor at Harvard University, as a Scholar-at-Risk Fellow at the Department of Comparative Literature, a librarian at the Houghton Library, and a fellow in the Harvard Divinity School.

Abu Toha is a columnist for Arrowsmith Press,{{cite web |url=https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/abutoha-column |title=Mosab Abu Toha |website=Arrowsmith Press |access-date=16 April 2024}} and has written from Gaza for The Nation, Literary Hub, the New York Times,{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |title=On the Cusp of Invasion, a Poet from Gaza Reflects on Trauma |date=October 14, 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/opinion/gaza-poet-palestinians-israel.html |access-date=16 April 2024 }} and The New Yorker.{{cite magazine |title=The View From My Window in Gaza |date=October 20, 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-view-from-my-window-in-gaza |access-date=November 20, 2023}}

His poems have been published on the Poetry Foundation website, and in publications which include The Atlantic,{{cite web |date=November 9, 2023 |title=Younger than War |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/11/poem-mosab-abu-toha-younger-war/675944/ |access-date=November 20, 2023 |work=The Atlantic}} Banipal,{{Cite web |title=Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature - Contributors - Mosab Abu Toha |url=https://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/contributor.cfm?contributor_id=1239 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Banipal}} Los Angeles Review of Books,{{Cite web |date=2023-11-22 |title=Mosab Abu Toha’s “Gaza Notebook (2021–2023)” |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mosab-abu-tohas-gaza-notebook |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250529045941/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mosab-abu-tohas-gaza-notebook/ |archive-date=2025-05-29 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}} The Markaz Review,{{Cite web |last=Toha |first=Mosab Abu |date=2021-07-14 |title=Four Poems from Mosab Abu Toha |url=https://themarkaz.org/four-poems-from-mosab-abu-toha/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250425211240/https://themarkaz.org/four-poems-from-mosab-abu-toha/ |archive-date=2025-04-25 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=The Markaz Review |language=en-US}} The New Arab, The New York Review,{{cite journal |last1=Toha |first1=Mosab Abu |date=May 11, 2023 |title=What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/05/11/what-a-gazan-should-do-during-an-israeli-air-strike-mosab-abu-toha/ |journal=The New York Review |volume=70 |issue=8 |access-date=November 20, 2023}} The New Yorker,{{cite magazine |date=November 6, 2023 |title=Obit |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/13/obit-mosab-abu-toha-poem |access-date=16 April 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker}} The Paris Review,{{Cite news |date=2024 |title=My Library by Mosab Abu Toha |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8299/my-library-mosab-abu-toha |access-date=2025-06-12 |work=The Paris Review |language=en |volume=Summer 2024 |issue=248 |issn=0031-2037}} Peripheries,{{Cite web |title=Issue 4: New Poetry from Gaza |url=https://www.peripheriesjournal.com/guest |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250113203549/https://www.peripheriesjournal.com/guest |archive-date=2025-01-13 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Peripheries |language=en}} Ploughshares,{{Cite web |title=Mosab Abu Toha |url=https://pshares.org/authors/mosab-abu-toha/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250320135940/https://pshares.org/authors/mosab-abu-toha/ |archive-date=2025-03-20 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Ploughshares |language=en-US}} Poetry Magazine,{{Cite web |last=Toha |first=Mosab Abu |title=Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/155510/things-you-may-find-hidden-in-my-ear |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250529113924/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/155510/things-you-may-find-hidden-in-my-ear |archive-date=2025-05-29 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Poetry Foundation}} The Progressive, and Solstice.{{Cite web |last=Toha |first=Mosab Abu |title=We Are Looking for Palestine |url=https://solsticelitmag.org/content/we-are-looking-for-palestine/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531222950/https://solsticelitmag.org/content/we-are-looking-for-palestine/ |archive-date=2023-05-31 |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Solstice Literary Magazine |language=en-US}}

In 2022, he published his first book of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights). It won the Palestine Book Award and an American Book Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Walcott Poetry Prize. The New York Times said, "Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."{{Cite news |date=2022-04-15 |title=Newly Published Poetry, From Gaza to Zoom Rooms and More |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/books/review/new-this-week.html |access-date=2023-11-21 |issn=0362-4331}} For the National Book Critics Circle, Jacob Appel wrote, "What makes Abu Toha’s work resonate so strongly is his gift for the particular. By avoiding panoramic generalizations, he hones in upon evocative images that capture the larger plight of his people."{{Cite web |last=Appel |first=Jacob |author-link=Jacob M. Appel |date=2023-02-17 |title=Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/02/17/things-you-may-find-hidden-in-my-ear-by-mosab-abu/ |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=National Book Critics Circle |language=en-US}}

In 2023, Abu Toha was appointed to a visiting faculty position at Syracuse University through the Scholars at Risk network.{{cite news |last1=Ritter |first1=Gretchen |author1-link=Gretchen Ritter |title=University Announces Visiting Faculty Appointment Through Scholars at Risk Network |url=https://news.syr.edu/university-announces-visiting-faculty-appointment-through-scholars-at-risk-network/ |access-date=23 November 2023 |work=Syracuse University News}}

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In October 2023, Abu Toha, his wife and his children evacuated their home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, and moved to the Jabaliya refugee camp after Israel warned it would bomb Beit Lahiya. In a New Yorker article published November 6, Toha wrote that he had ridden his bicycle to Beit Lahiya in an attempt to retrieve some books from the collection in his home. However, their home and the surrounding area were destroyed.{{Cite news |last=Borger |first=Julian |date=2023-11-21 |title=Detained Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha released by Israeli forces |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha-released-israel |access-date=2023-11-22 |issn=0261-3077}} Israel later also bombed Jabaliya, seventy meters from where they were.{{cite web |first=Sara |last=Roy |author-link=Sara Roy |title=Can you see the avocado? A letter to President Biden |website=London Review of Books |date=November 1, 2023 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/can-you-see-the-avocado |access-date=November 20, 2023 }}

Mosab Abu Toha was good friends with the poet Refaat Alareer who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on December 7, 2023. On January 22, 2024, Amy Goodman asked Toha to speak about Alareer's significance and how he died. He responded by saying first that his death was not unique and that at this time and that Alareer's body is still under the rubble. He also shared: "I'd like to remember Refaat as someone who was always ready to listen to our literary works. He liked to read some of Shakespeare's sonnets, of John Donne's poems. He was a huge fan of John Donne. I would like to remember Refaat as someone who loves – who loved to go to strawberry farms and pick strawberries with me and play pun games. Refaat is someone who didn't want to die."{{Cite web |title=Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha Decries Israel's "Inhumane" Assault as Gaza Death Toll Tops 25,000 |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/22/mosab_abu_toha_gaza |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=Democracy Now! |date=January 22, 2024}}

On November 19, 2023, Abu Toha was detained by Israel Defense Forces while he was heading to the Rafah border crossing in an attempt to evacuate from the Gaza Strip with his family.{{cite news |first=Julian |last=Borger |author-link=Julian Borger |title=Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha arrested by Israelis in Gaza, family says |newspaper=The Guardian |date=November 20, 2023 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha-arrested-by-israelis-in-gaza-family-says |access-date=November 20, 2023 }} Initial reports attributed it to his recent high-profile writings.{{Cite magazine |date=2023-11-20 |title=A New Yorker Contributor Detained by Israeli Forces Is Released |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/israeli-forces-reportedly-detain-a-new-yorker-contributor |access-date=16 April 2024 |issn=0028-792X}}{{Cite web |last=Diamond |first=Jonny |date=2023-11-20 |title=Reports suggest Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been arrested by Israeli forces. |url=https://lithub.com/reports-suggest-palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha-has-been-kidnapped-by-israeli-forces/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}} He had been told by American officials that he and his family would be able to cross into Egypt, since his three-year-old son is a US citizen. The Israeli military detained him at a checkpoint as he attempted to leave the north of Gaza for the south. The family had been given clearance to evacuate.

According to the Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu Abu Toha had been sent for by the US embassy.{{cite news |url=https://time.com/6338183/palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha-arrested-gaza-israel/ |title=Gaza-Based Poet Mosab Abu Toha Was Worried About Becoming Another Statistic in the News. Now He's Among Palestinians Israel's Arrested |publisher=Time}} Conveying an account from Abu Toha's wife, Buttu told Time: “He was forced to put his son down … They were all forced to walk with their hands raised in the air. He raised his arms in the air … [and he and] around 200 others were taken out of this line and abducted. They have not heard from him since.” The Israeli Defense Forces told the Washington Post that they were looking into the arrest.

New Yorker online editor Michael Luo confirmed on 20 November that Abu Toha had been "arrested".{{cite news |first=Irene Katz |last=Connelly |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/570567/palestinian-poet-gaza-mosab-abu-toha-captured-israel/ |title=Palestinian poet who chronicled daily life in Gaza reportedly captured by IDF |publisher=The Forward | date=November 20, 2023}} Free speech organization PEN America called for his protection, and PEN International called for information about Abu Toha's situation.{{cite tweet|user=pen_int|number=1726618062558814395|title=We join calls demanding to know his whereabouts and the reasons for his detention.}}

On 21 November 2023, Democracy Now! reported that Abu Toha had been released after being taken to an Israeli prison in the Negev and beaten, according to a statement from Buttu. He was taken to a hospital due to his injuries.{{cite news |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/21/gaza_mosab_abu_toha_kidnapping |title=Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Freed After Being Abducted in Gaza & Beaten by Israeli Forces in Jail |publisher=Democracy Now! | date=November 21, 2023}}

In a 2024 article in The New Yorker, Abu Toha described his move to Syracuse, New York, and the lingering impacts of his arrest, including secondary screenings in airports and a visit from FBI agents.{{cite magazine |last1=Abu Toha |first1=Mosab |title=The Pain of Travelling While Palestinian |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-pain-of-travelling-while-palestinian |magazine=The New Yorker |date=21 September 2024 |access-date=4 October 2024}}

Far-right pro-Israel group Betar US sent Toha's name to the second Trump administration, recommending his arrest and deportation. After Abu Toha won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize Betar again called for his deportation and described him as a "jihadi".{{cite web |last1=Cramer |first1=Philissa |title=Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian writer targeted by far-right pro-Israel activists, wins Pulitzer for commentary |url=https://www.jta.org/2025/05/05/culture/mosab-abu-toha-palestinian-writer-targeted-by-far-right-pro-israel-activists-wins-pulitzer-for-commentary |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |access-date=15 May 2025 |date=6 May 2025}}

In 2025, Abu Toha's essays on the Gaza war in The New Yorker{{Cite magazine |title=Mosab Abu Toha |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/mosab-abu-toha |access-date=2025-05-06 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}} won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.{{Cite web |title=Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/6/israel_gaza_genocide_famine_blockade |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Chao-Fong |first=Léonie |date=2025-05-05 |title=Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer prize for commentary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/05/palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha-pulitzer |access-date=2025-05-06 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |author=Al Jazeera Staff |title=Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/5/mosab-abu-toha-wins-pulitzer-for-gaza-essays |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}} The prize cited his essays "on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience" of the war.{{cite news |title=Palestinian author Mosab Abu Toha wins Pulitzer Prize for commentary |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/5/mosab-abu-toha-wins-pulitzer-for-gaza-essays |access-date=12 May 2025 |work=Al Jazeera |date=May 5, 2025 |language=en}} The four essays cited in the award covered the Gaza landscape, the Jabalia refugee camp, difficulties finding food in Gaza and the scrutiny experienced by Abu Toha while travelling in the US.{{cite web |last1=Cramer |first1=Philissa |title=Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian writer targeted by far-right pro-Israel activists, wins Pulitzer for commentary |url=https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2025/05/16/news/mosab-abu-toha-palestinian-writer-targeted-by-far-right-pro-israel-activists-wins-pulitzer-for-commentary/21605.html |website=Heritage Florida Jewish News |access-date=16 May 2025 |language=en |date=16 May 2025}}

On winning the prize, Abu Toha said, "It is my biggest hope that this achievement and recognition will be a step toward greater understanding of the decades-long plight of the Palestinian people and that it will inspire people, especially those in power, to act and put an end to this tragedy."{{cite web |title=Alumnus, Visiting Scholar Mosab Abu Toha G'23 Wins Pulitzer Prize for New Yorker Essays |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2025/05/14/alumnus-visiting-scholar-mosab-abu-toha-g23-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-new-yorker-essays/ |publisher=Syracuse University News |access-date=21 May 2025 |date=14 May 2025}}

On 25 January 2025, Abu Toha wrote a social media post questioning whether most of the hostages abducted by Palestinian militants{{failed verification|date=May 2025}} during the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel could be referred to as "hostages,"{{harvnb|Smith|2005}}: "The Pulitzer Prize has been accused of “desecrating the memory” of Oct 7 victims after awarding a journalist who suggested Israelis could not be hostages." specifically naming UK-Israeli civilian Emily Damari. On 6 May 2025, a day after winning the Pulitzer prize, he changed his post to read "some" instead of "most".{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=David |title=Hamas hostage condemns Pulitzer prize awarded to sceptic |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/hamas-hostage-condemns-pulitzer-prize-mosab-abu-toha-grqh9q5ql |work=www.thetimes.com |date=8 May 2025 |language=en}}: 'Toha wrote on Facebook: “How on earth is this girl called a hostage? (And this is the case of most of the ‘hostages’). This is Emily Damari, a 28 UK-Israeli soldier [sic] that Hamas detained on 10/7 … Emily says that she serves on border with Gaza. The host asks her, ‘how does your mother sleep at night?’'{{cite news |last=Heller |first=Mathilda |date=7 May 2025 |title=Pulitzer Prize goes to Gazan poet who discredited hostages, disputed murder of Bibas family |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-853038 |work=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |publisher=Jerusalem Post |language=en}} On 3 February 2025, Abu Toha posted a message questioning whether abducted surveillance soldier Agam Berger could be considered a hostage, calling her and others "killers who join the army and have family in the army!"{{harvnb|Heller|2025}}: "On February 3, 2025, he made a similar post about Agam Berger, calling her an "Israeli 'hostage'" in inverted commas.

"These are the ones the world wants to share sympathy for, killers who join the army and have family in the army! These are the ones who CNN, BBC, and the likes humanize in articles, TV programs, and news bulletins."" On 1 February 2025, he posted on social media casting doubt on reports by Israeli hostages that they were tortured in captivity.{{cite news |author1=Ynetnews |title=Palestinian poet awarded Pulitzer justified hostage taking on Oct. 7, spread antisemitic rhetoric |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syjesbyxle |work=Ynetnews |date=7 May 2025 |language=en}}: "Toha has also cast doubt on the released hostages' claims that they were tortured while in captivity.
"When the Israeli hostages were released, did you see any torture signs? Even the soldiers among them?""

The Times of Israel editorial staff wrote that they "uncovered posts in which [Abu Toha] accused Israel of killing hostages held by terror groups in Gaza, disparaged calls for their release, urged the international community to take military action against Israel, and called for activists and others to 'escalate' actions against the Jewish state."{{cite news |title=Former hostage decries Pulitzer given to Gazan writer who legitimized their abduction |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-hostage-decries-pulitzer-given-to-gazan-writer-who-legitimized-abduction/ |work=www.timesofisrael.com |publisher=Times of Israel |date=8 May 2025 |author=TOI Staff}} Abu Toha had also criticized the BBC for publishing an article{{cite news |last1=Wright |first1=George |last2=Moench |first2=Mallory |title=Israel says forensics show Bibas children killed by captors |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjry3jzedl1o |work=www.bbc.com |publisher=BBC |date=21 February 2025}} which cited the IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari's statement that forensic evidence showed that the Bibas children were killed with "bare hands" without the BBC seeing the forensic evidence themselves.{{cite web |last1=Abu Toha |first1=Mosab |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/mosab_abutoha/p/DGXJxIbO3rE/ |website=www.instagram.com |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250515144002/https://www.instagram.com/mosab_abutoha/p/DGXJxIbO3rE/ |archive-date=15 May 2025 |date=22 February 2025}}: 'Shame on BBC, propaganda machine. IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said ‘forensic findings’, which have not been seen by the BBC, suggested the boys had been killed with ‘bare hands.’ If you haven’t seen any evidence, why did you publish this. Well, that’s what you are, filthy people.' Quoted partially in {{harvnb|TOI Staff|2025}}, {{harvnb|Heller|2025}}.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Benedict |last2=Henderson |first2=Cameron |date=8 May 2025 |title=Pulitzer accused of 'desecrating the memory' of Oct 7 victims by freed hostage |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/05/08/pulitzer-accused-of-desecrating-the-memory-of-oct-7-victims/ |work=The Telegraph}}

Writer Seth Mandel and journalist Gil Hoffman criticized the conferment of the Pulitzer Prize to Abu Toha.{{cite news |last1=Mandel |first1=Seth |title=Pulitzer's Ignoble Prize |url=https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/pulitzers-ignoble-prize/ |work=Commentary Magazine |publisher=Commentary Magazine |date=8 May 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Hoffman |first1=Gil |author1-link=Gil Hoffman |title=Pulitzer Prize shows Hamas continues to control Gaza war's narrative - opinion |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-854109 |work=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |date=17 May 2025 |language=en}} Former hostage Emily Damari, whose hostage status was questioned by Abu Toha, called him "the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier" for "blatant denial of documented crimes" in a letter to the Pulitzer prize board.{{cite news |last1=Cramer |first1=Philissa |title=Freed hostage Emily Damari to Pulitzer board: Mosab Abu Toha is 'the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier' |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/718678/freed-hostage-emily-damari-to-pulitzer-board-mosab-abu-toha-is-the-modern-day-equivalent-of-a-holocaust-denier/ |work=The Forward |date=8 May 2025 |language=en}} Journalist Eliana Johnson, who was on the nominating jury panel for the Pulitzer prize for national reporting in 2025, criticized the Pulitzer board for granting the prize to Abu Toha, questioning if he had been properly vetted.{{cite news |last1=Dickey |first1=Josh |title=Pulitzer Board Rebukes Juror Eliana Johnson for Calling Out Winner Who Mocked Israeli Hostages |url=https://www.thewrap.com/pulitzer-board-rebuke-juror-eliana-johnson-winner-mosab-abu-toha-mock-israeli-hostages/ |work=TheWrap |date=17 May 2025}}

After Abu Toha won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize, he was interviewed by MSNBC. When asked about Emily Damari, he said he had not questioned her status as a hostage but was indicating "that the language used to describe those incarcerated differs depending on whether they are Israeli or Palestinian". Abu Toha said, "I have people in my family who were kidnapped from checkpoints, from schools, from shelters, and they are named prisoners." He also told MSNBC that an Israeli airstrike killed 31 of his family members.{{cite web |last1=Walsh |first1=Aimee |title=Pulitzer Prize winner says 'I don't want to compare suffering' in poignant chat |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/palestinian-pulitzer-prize-winner-says-35216417 |website=Daily Mirror |access-date=15 May 2025 |language=en |date=13 May 2025}}

Soon after Abu Toha's win, Meta suspended his account for the second time in a week. The decision was criticized by journalist Meghnad Bose, who wrote on Twitter that it was "the latest high-profile instance of Meta's disproportionate censorship of content related to Palestine." Meta said the suspension was an error and restored Abu Toha's account the next day, on 7 May.{{cite web |last1=Anis |first1=Dalia |title=Social media erupts in anger after Meta suspends Palestinian Pulitzer Prize winner's account |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/meta-suspends-palestinian-poet-account-hours-after-winning-pulitzer-prize |website=Middle East Eye |access-date=15 May 2025 |language=en |date=7 May 2025}}

• Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, 2025
• Freedom of Expression Award by The Norwegian Authors’ Union. (with Adania Shibli), 2025
• Overseas Press Club Award for the New Yorker series{{cite web |title=Alumnus, Visiting Scholar Mosab Abu Toha G'23 Wins Pulitzer Prize for New Yorker Essays |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2025/05/14/alumnus-visiting-scholar-mosab-abu-toha-g23-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-new-yorker-essays/ |website=SU News |access-date=16 May 2025 |date=14 May 2025}}

• {{cite book |title=Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza |publisher=City Lights Publishers |date=2022 |isbn=9780872868601 |oclc=1267386450}}
• {{cite book |title=Forest of Noise |publisher=Knopf |date=2024 |isbn=9780593803974 |oclc=}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=JQJqXptFCQkontL1&v=BSh3pIBdKR4 "Terrorized": Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Being Stripped, Jailed & Beaten by Israeli Forces. Democracy Now! on YouTube.]

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