Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation: 24 (Voice of Witness) - Softcover

Cate Malek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784780502 ISBN 13: 9781784780500

Publisher: Verso Books, 2015

Synopsis

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world's most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In Palestine Speaks men and women from the West Bank and Gaza describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the conflict. This includes eyewitness accounts of the most recent attacks on Gaza in 2014. The collection includes Ebtihaj, whose son, born during the first intifada, was killed by Israeli soldiers during a night raid almost twenty years later. Nader, a professional marathon runner from the Gaza Strip who is determined to pursue his dream of competing in international races despite countless challenges, including severe travel restrictions and a lack of resources to help him train.

About this title

Product Description:

What is life really like in Gaza and the West Bank? For more than six decades, the Israel-Palestine conflict has been one of the world's most widely reported, yet least understood, human rights crises. Too often the everyday lives and voices of the people in Gaza and the West Bank are forgotten. In Palestine Speaks men and women living under the occupation describe in their own words how it has shaped their lives. This includes eyewitness accounts of the most recent attacks on Gaza in 2014. Part of the highly acclaimed Voices of Witness oral history series, Palestine Speaks is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the Israel-Palestine crisis.

Review:

“Palestine Speaks demonstrates that nothing is more eloquent than the voices of those who endure and try valiantly to survive. Nothing is more important for us than to listen to them carefully, to grasp their suffering, to learn from their testimonies about them and about ourselves, and to use this understanding to bring their tragedy to an end.” – Noam Chomsky

“Palestine Speaks – a collection of testimonials from Palestinians narrating their own experiences, their own suffering, is a rare and courageous book.” – Ben Ehrenreich, journalist and author of Ether and The Suitors

“A stunning, essential, and heartbreaking book that puts a profoundly human face on the suffering of the Palestinian people.” – George Saunders, author of Tenth of December

“In a time when history is told in cheap television re-enactments, if at all, and personal tragedy is gobbled up in rapidly digestible magazine photos and reality shows, this project goes against the grain.” – Guardian

“Superb ... The voices of these ordinary individuals speak here with unsettling eloquence.” – David Shulman, New York Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784780502
• ISBN 13: 9781784780500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Cate Malek, Mateo Hoke