Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine

by Refaat Alareer

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit… . —Chinua Achebe, in Anthills of the Savannah

Gaza Writes Back provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling stories shapes our memories.