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The Drone Eats with Me

The Drone Eats with Me

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"The fifty-day Israel-Gaza conflict that began in early July of 2014 left over 2,100 people dead. The overwhelming majority of the dead were Palestinians, including some 500 children. Another 13,000-odd Palestinians were wounded, and 17,200 homes demolished. These statistics are sadly familiar, as is the political rhetoric from Israeli and Palestinian authorities alike. What is less familiar, however, is a sense of the ordinary Gazan society that war lays to waste. One of the few voices to make it out of Gaza was that of Atef Abu Saif, a writer and teacher from Jabalia refugee camp, whose eyewitness accounts ... offered a rare window into the conflict for Western readers. Here, Abu Saif's complete diaries of the war allow us to witness the events of 2014 from the perspective of a young father, fearing for his family's safety"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2016-07-05
Publication Date:
2016-07-05
Publisher:
Beacon Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0807049107
ISBN13:
9780807049105
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Weight:
355 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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