Editor: Skye Arundhati Thomas
Publisher: Silver/TBA21
Paperback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
Cat says… A collection of essays, poetry and art, including testimony directly from Gazans, which powerfully call for Palestinian liberation. This book is guided by the words of contributor Mohammed Mhawkish who told the editors to, “Speak to Gaza, not just about Gaza.” I was particularly fascinated by the political depth of the Letters on Palestine which Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the British-Egyptian political activist, wrote while imprisoned in Egypt. I also found Nahil Mohana’s diaries from Gaza very useful in describing the banal inconveniences as well as the horror of the siege on Gaza. At one point instant coffee costs $107 and Mohana splits the cost of a jar with some friends and then divides it out between them with a spoon. When she gets home she finds that she has been sent two jars from her relatives in the South of Gaza and didn’t need to waste her money.