The Ten Letters: What Absence Cannot Take

A personal literary text delivered by writer Ola Aweidah at the launch event of her book "The Ten Letters" at the Haifa Cultural Club. She reflects on her relationship with her late father, describing how their private correspondence became a book, expressing that the book is not just a launch but another meeting with him.

A personal literary text delivered by writer Ola Aweidah at the launch event of her book "The Ten Letters," hosted by the Haifa Cultural Club on September 24, 2026. The writer reflects on her relationship with her late father, describing how their private letters became a published book. She recounts how the letters were initially an extension of a close relationship, where she wrote to him not because she had something to say, but because she was searching for answers to her questions about humanity, homeland, love, and death. She describes her father as a person who made room for her to question, and walked with her on her path without imposing a ready-made certainty. She expresses that the book is not just a launch, but another meeting with her father, and that the words that once traveled between only two people now have new readers. She concludes by saying that something of her father still writes with her, and that the book is about the things that absence cannot take.