In a New Yorker essay, Palestinian journalist Mohammed R. Mhawish recounts his family's escape from Gaza and the cost of survival in exile: his son Rafik, diagnosed with acute malnutrition during the siege, fell silent after an air strike buried the family, and even in Paterson, New Jersey, the boy slept with the lights on. Exile brought its own wounds — the killing of his friend, photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi, in Khan Younis; a mother stuck in Egypt undergoing chemotherapy; a stateless son born in Cairo. Psychoanalyst Lama Khouri tells him the symptoms are common among Palestinians who fled.