Gaza Narrates Its Genocide: Stories and Testimonies
Contributors:
Edited by
:
Akram Mousallam
Abdul-Rahman Abu Shammaleh
Introduced by
:
Ghassan Zaqtan
supervised by
:
Majdi al-Maliki
Publisher: 
مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية
Publication Year: 
2024
Language: 
Arabic
Number of Pages: 
289
TABLE OF CONTENT
Abstract

This book narrates stories from Gaza written during wartime, the aim being to document the voices and narratives of its victims and as a contribution towards highlighting the lives of ordinary people at a time of the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. The book complements the role of the Institute for Palestine Studies in documenting that genocidal war from various perspectives.

The texts in this book acquire their importance from the fact that they deal with stories and narratives of genocide by giving voice to its victims who are still living its horrors. They wrote down or voiced their ordeals despite the fact of their daily preoccupation to stay alive. These are narratives that cannot be found in the media or any social network, and have thus far remained hidden beneath the rubble of buildings and burnt out tents. Accordingly, they are the truest expression of the realities and horrors of this ongoing genocide.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Akram Musallam: Novelist and journalist. Born in 1971 in the village of Talfit in the Nablus Province. He holds a BA degree in Arabic language and literature from Bir Zeit University (1995) and an MA in international affairs from Bir Zeit University (2011). He has been working as a reporter in Al-Ayyam newspaper since 1995. He won the first prize in the Young Authors Competition in 2007 and the Palestine Prize for Originality in 2019.

He has published 4 novels: Hawajis al-Iskandar (Ramallah: Markaz Ugarit, 2003); Sirat al-aqrab alladhi yatasabbab araqan (Beirut: Dar al-Adab, 2008); Iltabasa al-Amr `ala al-Laqlaq (Amman: Dar al-Ahliyya, 2012) and Bint min Shatila (Amman; Dar al-Ahliyya, 2018). Several of his novels have been translated into English, French and Italian.

Abdul-Rahman Yunus Abu Shammaleh: Journalist. Born in 1969 at the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. He holds a BA degree in Arabic language and literature from Bir Zeit University (1995) and an MA in international affairs from Bir Zeit University (2011). He worked as a reporter in Al-Ayyam newspaper (1995-2019) and as publishing director at the `Abd al-Muhsin al-Qattan Foundation (2003-2022) and currently works as language consultant at the Qattan Foundation and several other publishing and cultural foundations.

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