A Letter from Hisham Halawani to His Wife, 1982

Handwritten, this letter is by Hisham Halawani at Askalan Prison to his wife Waela and son Helmi at as-Sowana Neighbourhood in Jerusalem on 27 May 1982, where he wrote the great gratitude he has to his wife for sharing the long years of captivity with him, wrote about the inflation of human feelings inside prison, due to his lack of preoccupation with daily events that dictate new ideas and dreams, and that the routine in prison kills these preoccupations, which requires them to organize their time by themselves and occupy themselves with new knowledge such as philosophy, economics, psychology and linguistics, and in this way, a person deceives time or can spend his time imagining and dreaming about the future. In the middle of the second page, he asked Waela to pay attention to studying and increasing her culture to make good use of time, he also wrote her an encouraging story about women who succeeded in challenging themselves and obtaining higher degrees and stressed that his desire for his wife to achieve success in these challenges was only to reduce the intellectual gap between them.