“We did not imagine that we would never be able to go back home again.”

An interview with Mohammed Telbani, a Palestinian who recently fled to Egypt.

I worked with Mohammed at the publication Popula several years ago and when I saw his GoFundMe, I contributed what I could to help him leave Gaza and join his wife and kids in Egypt. Seeing the donations creep up so slowly frustrated me and I got it in my head that if I just called up everyone I knew who might have $50 or $100 to spare he could get out.…