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Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze
9 reviews
laurareads87's review against another edition
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
Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, War, Grief, Confinement, Violence, and Police brutality
ska1224's review
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Racism, Classism, Islamophobia, Violence, War, Murder, and Grief
amberinpieces's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Grief, Confinement, and Bullying
Minor: Ableism
honeyvoiced's review
4.5
Graphic: Genocide and Grief
thewordsdevourer's review against another edition
3.75
while im not at all knowledgable abt certain topics explored - such AI and architecture - they are nevertheless enlightening and offer a truly unique, fresh perspective. i also particularly enjoy learning abt the deep bond between palestinians and their land thru peasantry, and the importance of humanitarianism that instead focuses on liberation and return. this is def a collection to be read and learned from, straight from palestinians themselves.
Graphic: War, Violence, Police brutality, Colonisation, Racism, and Islamophobia
Moderate: Death, Murder, Genocide, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Child death
oliviagarby's review
4.75
Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Grief
sxndaze's review against another edition
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?
Graphic: Violence and Grief
literary_hazelnut's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Grief, Death, Colonisation, and Genocide
bookishmillennial's review
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 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.
Graphic: War, Confinement, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Mental illness, Child death, and Colonisation