Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze

3 reviews

alyssapusateri's review

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Genocide, War, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Child death, Gun violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Alcohol

laurareads87's review

challenging hopeful informative sad medium-paced

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire is a collection of writings by Palestinian authors.  It is extraordinarily diverse in terms of genre, including scholarly essays, poetry, first-person autobiographical narratives, and more. Informative, deeply impactful, and urgent. Reading this book right now - in early 2024, so soon after the murder of contributing author Refaat Alareer - is devastating.

As the introduction notes, this book "is an attempt to put into words certain aspects of the Palestinian experience in and around Gaza that have been ignored, underrepresented, and dismissed" as well as an "attempt to break the intellectual blockade and the political exclusion of Palestinian voices."  Thank you Haymarket Books for making this collection freely available.

Content warnings: colonialism, violence, racism, war, grief, police brutality, murder, forcible confinement, gun violence

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, War, Grief, Confinement, Violence, and Police brutality

ska1224's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Racism, Classism, Islamophobia, Violence, War, Murder, and Grief