Edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro
Verso
10/7/2025, paperback
SKU: 9781836742241
An urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage of the genocide in Gaza, told by Palestinians.
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide 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 twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Barghouti examines the brutality of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, while Eman Bashir describes the phenomenon of a "wounded child, no surviving family." These voices, among many others, illuminate the enduring psychological, physical, and generational toll of state violence.
With contributions from recipients of the Palestine Book Award, Arab American Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, National Book Award, and Gandhi Peace Award, this collection also honors the late poet Hiba Abu Nada--killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 20, 2023.
All royalties will be donated directly to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Reviews:
"An absolutely vital compendium of intellectual and emotional scholarship about not only the ongoing grotesquerie of crimes committed against the Palestinian people, but the very nature of colonialism and apartheid. There is so much incisive, fearless and honest writing here, but also immense beauty of language, immense humanity. This is a landmark anthology." -- Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
"This book offers a glimpse into the way this genocide is changing who we are as Palestinians and the way that it is molding our view of ourselves and of the world around us. The Nakba of 1948 was a formative point in the development of modern Palestinian identity. Even for the Palestinians born after the Nakba, we were raised to see this event as the worst moment of our lives and that we as individuals and as a people should strive to overturn that catastrophic moment. The genocide in Gaza is a historical event of equal magnitude that will reshape Palestinian identity for generations to come." -- Ghassan Abu-Sittah, co-author of Reconstructing the War Injured Patient
About the Editors:
Fatima Bhutto's books include the novels The Runaways and The Shadow of The Crescent Moon, longlisted for the Women's Prize and winner of the 2014 Prix de la Romanciere. Her non-fiction books include Songs of Blood and Sword and New Kings of the World. She is the co-founder, with Sonia Faleiro and Julia Churchill, of Books for Gaza.
Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Good Girls, nominated for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction, and the Premio Feltrinelli, and Beautiful Thing, shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. She is the founder of the literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks and co-founder of Books for Gaza. Based in London, she is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.