The drone eats with me: a Gaza diary

by Abū Sayf, ʻĀṭif

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Title Statements

Full title :The drone eats with me : a Gaza diary / Atef Abu Saif.

Summary

"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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Beacon Press
Place of Publication:Boston
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

Notes

"Originally published as The drone eats with me : diaries from a city under fire, by Comma Press"--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:258 pages : : maps ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780807049105, 0807049107
oclc:ocn960056328
LC Classification:DS110.G3
Dewey Decimal:953.1

Subjects

Abū Sayf, ʻĀṭif Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal M… Gaza Strip Gaza Strip -- Politics and government Gaza Strip -- Social conditions Gaza, Bande de -- Conditions sociales Palestinian Arabs Palestinian Arabs -- Biography. -- Gaza… Palestiniens -- Biographies. -- Gaza, B… Personal Narrative Personal narratives POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World Politics and government Récits personnels RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Pers… Social conditions