Beauty under siege: The women in Gaza holding onto self-care

Treating the physical marks of displacement can help Palestinian women hold onto dignity, normality and a small measure of control amid ceaseless violence

Beauty under siege: The women in Gaza holding onto self-care
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“We lost everything, but we won’t lose our beauty,” says Dr Sana’a Kabariti, a skincare specialist in Gaza. A poet-turned-pharmacist-turned-aesthetician, Dr Kabariti has spent the last two and a half years treating the skin conditions affecting women in Gaza during the genocide.

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