Hend Jouda

Hend Jouda is a Palestinian poet born in 1983 in the al-Bureij refugee camp in Gaza.

The author of poems and short stories published on a number of websites, she has also written many documentary scripts for which she does the voice dubbing. A radio producer, she works with Workers Radio in Gaza. She produced and presented the program Good Morning, Homeland for Radio Al-Hurriya in Gaza. She is editor-in-chief of Magazine 28 in Gaza.

She won the Appreciation Prize by the Youth Ideas Association for her short stories and the Golden Prize at the Arab Youth Gathering Festival in Cairo. She has published two collections of poems, Toujours quelqu'un s'en va (2013) and Pas de sucre en ville (2017).

An anthology in French translation will be published in September 2025 by Héros Limite, Geneva.

She regularly posts poems on her Facebook page.

She is currently a refugee with her family in Cairo.