GAZA HELD IN TIME: A TAPESTRY OF TWO LIVES offers a personal and deeply emotional account of life in Gaza, chronicling the experiences of two young individuals before and during the recent conflict. Through alternating narratives, Tareq, who eventually left Gaza, and Yara, who remained, explore themes of survival, displacement, memory, and the enduring human spirit. The authors aim to humanise Gaza beyond news headlines, illustrating the rich cultural fabric of the region and the profound impact of war on daily life, while also challenging readers to remember and engage with their story. 'Written by four hands, from inside and outside Gaza as if a rope also physically kept the two narrators tied together. There is no page that does not simultaneously strike the reader's reason and heart, both in the transmission of pain and injustice and in the memory of a beauty that those who have known Gaza can confirm.' - Patrizia Cecconi, author, Il lungo cammino della Palestina: 1917-2017. 'Tareq AlSourani and Yara Nasser, both still teenagers, provide an extraordinary evocation of the endless fear, loss, humiliation and horror of life in Gaza over the last twenty months. Still in Gaza, Yara's poetry captures the numbness of those managing to survive, like 'dead people walking'. Crossing into Egypt, Tareq expresses the guilt and anguish of escape, while loved others remain.' - Lynne Segal, writer, academic and activist, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
