As part of the Institute of Women’s Studies’ student and faculty exchange with the GRO-GEST (Gender Equality Studies and Training) Programme in the University of Iceland, Dr. Rania Jawad, director of the Institute, undertook a one-week staff mobility exchange from May 20-25, 2024 to the University of Iceland where she had meetings with faculty and fellows of the program. On May 22, she gave a public lecture titled “Life in genocide: women’s testimonials and an alphabet of war” at the National Museum of Iceland. Her talk focused on select records of life being written in the genocidal war by several women from Gaza who have been documenting how life has been reconfigured for themselves and for those around them. Sharing words and images by Aml Al-Nakhala, Beesan Nateel, Mariam Alloh, and Feda al-Hassanat, these women are articulating and defining what survival looks like, documenting a vocabulary of war that the Zionist colonizers are imposing on them/us, while simultaneously creating a new language in defiance of the colonizer’s attempt at dismembering Gaza and Palestine.