Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

Join Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, co-editors of Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, for a conversation on this urgent and powerful new volume. Bringing together testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage, the book bears witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people – their lives, their land, and their future.

Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of 21 family members; Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation; Mariam Barghouti writes on Israeli settler violence in the West Bank; and Lina Mounzer reports on the aftermath of Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. Their testimonies, alongside many others, illuminate the enduring psychological and physical toll of state violence.

This landmark collection features work by recipients of the Palestine Book Award, Arab American Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, National Book Award, and Gandhi Peace Award. It includes illustrations by Joe Sacco and Mona Chalabi as well as the poetry of Hiba Abu Nada, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 20 October 2023.

Other contributors include Mosab Abu Toha, Susan Abulhawa, Laila Al-Arian, Tareq Baconi, Eman Basher, Omar Barghouti, Yara Eid, Huda J. Fakhreddine, Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, Yara Hawari, Maryam Iqbal, Nina Lakhani, Ahmed Masoud, Malaka Shwaikh, Shareef Sarhan, and Mary Turfah.

Presented by the Palestine Festival of Literature in partnership with Ibraaz.