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Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze
14 reviews
oliviagarby's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Grief
sxndaze's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Hath not a Palestinian eyes? Hath not a Palestinian hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed withthe same food, hurt with the same weapons, subjectto the same diseases, heal’d by the same means,warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summeras a Christian or a Jew is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Grief
literary_hazelnut's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Grief, Death, Colonisation, and Genocide
bookishmillennial's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
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This was a devastating, informative, and extremely moving collection of essays from contributors who explain the current state/lack of wellbeing of Gaza. There are a few poems interspersed throughout the book, as well as photographs after each essay.
I learned so much about the ways every single aspect of life in Gaza has deteriorated due to Israeli occupation:
This was a devastating, informative, and extremely moving collection of essays from contributors who explain the current state/lack of wellbeing of Gaza. There are a few poems interspersed throughout the book, as well as photographs after each essay.
I learned so much about the ways every single aspect of life in Gaza has deteriorated due to Israeli occupation:
-the agriculture: obviously, land was literally taken away from Palestinians, and they had a rich ecological system before the Nakba, filled with olives and citrus trees
-the quality of their physical buildings and homes: spoiler alert: it is severely lacking & is criminally underfunded
-their education, libraries, and bookstores: books shipped into Gaza were censored and delayed in delivery, library membership & attendance went down as more & more attacks occurred, & the economic state of the families in Gaza meant they simply could not afford to buy books
-cinemas: all of the films they showed were only from Israel, this is not a shock but just a consistent message of Israel heavily censoring anything that the Palestinians consumed
-and so much more!
I highly recommend this book, as it provides a clear illustration of what life is like for Palestinians who are forced to live under occupation, and it’s full of reasons why the world needs to liberate them. No one deserves to live like this.
-the quality of their physical buildings and homes: spoiler alert: it is severely lacking & is criminally underfunded
-their education, libraries, and bookstores: books shipped into Gaza were censored and delayed in delivery, library membership & attendance went down as more & more attacks occurred, & the economic state of the families in Gaza meant they simply could not afford to buy books
-cinemas: all of the films they showed were only from Israel, this is not a shock but just a consistent message of Israel heavily censoring anything that the Palestinians consumed
-and so much more!
I highly recommend this book, as it provides a clear illustration of what life is like for Palestinians who are forced to live under occupation, and it’s full of reasons why the world needs to liberate them. No one deserves to live like this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Confinement, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Mental illness, Child death, and Colonisation
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