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Noa Raanan

Apr 8, 2026, 7:50 AM

In his song “My Second Childhood,” Ehud Manor writes about parenting being a second childhood, one experienced vicariously through the child. “Through your eyes, daughter, I discover the world again. Through your hands, I learn to touch the sea...

Oct 8, 2025, 11:18 PM

In Praise of Ambivalence

Today is October Eighth, 2025. Yesterday was two years since the Hamas attack on Israel. There was a book launch I wanted to go to but couldn’t. To sit in a literary event on this day seemed distasteful to...

Aug 5, 2025, 12:05 AM

Literary Fiction or Propaganda? A Review of Enter Ghost by Hammad

One of the most prominent Palestinian writers, Ghassan Kanafani, argued in 1967 in On Zionist Literature that “Political Zionism employed extensively not only for its propaganda efforts but for its political and military campaigns as well.” It’s easy...

Oct 31, 2024, 5:11 AM

Reinforcement of Jewish and Israeli Stereotypes in The Lover by Rebecca Sacks

“We walk backwards into a future we cannot see, eyes on the past,” (p. 6) says Allison, the main character of the novel The Lover by Rebecca Bee Sacks. This is just one of the Talmudic ideas Allison, a...

Aug 23, 2024, 12:32 AM

Reading about the Islamic Revolution in a Time of War

In the waiting room of the fertility specialist and while spreading her legs to be inseminated, the narrator of the novel Disoriental, by Negar Djavadi, recounts the tales of her family. Kimiâ Sadr, who fled from Teheran to Paris,...

About Me

Noa Raanan (she/her) is an Israeli-Canadian writer. She worked in the Israeli media and published short stories and nonfiction in Hebrew, English, and German. Her writing was displayed in Granta Hebrew Edition, Jewish Women of Words, Frankfurter Rundschau, Emerging Writers Reading Series and more. Recently, she graduated from the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph.

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