Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian writer, poet, scholar and librarian from the Gaza Strip. His debut poetry collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, won the Palestine Book Award and an American Book Award, and he has also published the poems of Forest of Noise. He founded the Edward Said Library, Gaza's first English-language library. After being detained by the Israeli army in November 2023, he kept writing about the war from afar, and he won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his essays in The New Yorker.
