Authors: Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia
Publisher: Saqi
Paperback
One of our books of the year 2024!
So says: An epic woven of many voices, Daybreak in Gaza offers nearly 100 interviews and non-fiction narrative pieces by Gazan residents and long-term workers. It’s co-edited by Mahmoud Muna, writer, publisher and manager of the Educational Bookshop, Israel’s only Arabic-language bookstore, with three internationally-experienced journalists and communications workers, bringing a sensibility that blends urgency and literary style. From ancient bathhouses and 4th century churches lovingly remembered as they now lie in ruins to the under-acknowledged Armenian and Roma communities of Gaza, this is a dazzlingly encyclopaedic work whose very plurality and force of presence underline its lyrical resistance to genocide and epistemicide.