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Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze
3 reviews
laurareads87's review against another edition
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
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, War, Grief, Confinement, Violence, and Police brutality
amberinpieces's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Grief, Confinement, and Bullying
Minor: Ableism
bookishmillennial's review
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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