Daybreak in Gaza

Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture

Juliette Touma author Jayyab Abusafia author Matthew Teller editor Mahmoud Muna editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Saqi Books

Published:3rd Oct '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Daybreak in Gaza cover

This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught, its heritage destroyed. Daybreak in Gaza is a record of an extraordinary place and people, and of a culture preserved by the people themselves. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gaza’s cultural landscape and the breadth of its history. Daybreak in Gaza humanises the people dismissed as statistics. It stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction and as a testament to the people of Gaza.

'Read this. It is brutal with human pain and still, beauty, and life. Defiant life. Resistance. And, bitterly, the injustice of it all. You cannot walk away from Daybreak in Gaza unchanged. It will break your heart; but our hearts need to be broken.'

-- Harare Review of B

ISBN: 9781849250696

Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 30mm

Weight: 330g

336 pages