A Historian in Gaza

Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land's people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his unforgettable, unbearably intimate account of one month in a place shattered by Israel's all-out war. When the historian returned to Gaza, he arrived under circumstances unimaginably different from his many past visits since 1980: only a limited number of convoys were allowed into the Strip, and he was one of the few humanitarians able to enter, this time by night. He remained inside for thirty-three days, and emerged determined to bear witness to the devastation--to the Gazans fighting simply to live, every single day. Filiu's haunting portrait of a land betrayed is a grim work of war reportage, documented with the acuity of a historian; and a lyrical narrative of human suffering, and human dignity.

Info autore

Jean-Pierre Filiu is Professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po, and former visiting professor at Columbia and Georgetown Universities. His books include The Middle East: A Political History; and Guardian Book of the Year Gaza: A History (also available from Oxford University Press), which won Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Award.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Filiu Jean-Pierre, Jean-Pierre Filiu
• Con la collaborazione di: Schoch Cynthia (Traduzione), Selous Trista (Traduzione)
• Editore: Hurst House
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 27.11.2025
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9781805265252
• ISBN: 978-1-80526-525-2
• Categorie: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Gaza, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Warfare & defence, Palestine, Warfare and defence, Gaza, MSF, AID, NGO, genocide, Israel, starvation, war, conflict, Palestine