A review by serendipitysbooks
What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra Al-Maqtari

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4.5

 What Have You Left Behind? is a gutting and heartbreaking read. It's a collection of testimonies from civilians impacted by the Yemeni civil war. I admire the fact that this book includes stories from victims of the Saudi led coalition and victims of the Houthi militia. The grief of the survivors was palpable, the magnitude of some of the losses unimaginable. Reading this, it was impossible to put images from Palestine out of my head. But it also reminded me that while Palestine is, understandably, receiving a lot of attention in the west, there are unfortunately many other countries in the world where innocent civilians are losing their lives, or having them inexorably altered, because of geopolitical issues and armed conflict not of their making. 
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