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Meet Me in Gaza: Uncommon Stories of Life Inside the Strip
Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’?
From beautiful beaches to sealed borders, from a secret New Year’s Eve party to a lingerie market staffed entirely by men, award-winning writer Louisa Waugh paints an intimate picture of Gaza, revealing the pleasures and pains, hopes and frustrations of Gazans going about their daily lives.
Meet Me in Gaza is an evocative portrait of a Mediterranean land and its people, and a touching account of what it means to be Gazan.
Louisa B. Waugh lived and worked in the Gaza Strip from December 2007 to April 2009. Her other works include Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia, which won the 2004 inaugural Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance.
From beautiful beaches to sealed borders, from a secret New Year’s Eve party to a lingerie market staffed entirely by men, award-winning writer Louisa Waugh paints an intimate picture of Gaza, revealing the pleasures and pains, hopes and frustrations of Gazans going about their daily lives.
Meet Me in Gaza is an evocative portrait of a Mediterranean land and its people, and a touching account of what it means to be Gazan.
Louisa B. Waugh lived and worked in the Gaza Strip from December 2007 to April 2009. Her other works include Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia, which won the 2004 inaugural Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance.
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July 14, 2014
Luckily I only found the free intro-to-read bit after I'd ordered this book. Cos that gave completely the wrong idea of the rest: it's very human, all about a real life, in a very real place. Without all the what-felt-like-lots-of-stereotypes in those start-sections.
Since Louisa clearly does love Gaza and the Gazans she writes about; now so do I. She gives a great idea of how very special the place was before the Zionists started to behave quite so badly. And how differently-very-special it is now. I like her light-touch use of history very much. And the ongoing stories of the sweet oranges and the destruction of the trees are more powerful than any polemic.
But I think she could have been more explicit about her relative privilege: the great area she lived in, with lots of space and enough money to take individual taxis everywhere.
And I worry more than a little about Louisa herself, as well. I've worked in some weird NGO places myself - though with less bombs, I'm pleased to say - and I wholeheartedly agree with Louisa's get-out-there-and-get-on-with-it approach. And with her distaste for the media monkeys who are in their own little world of one-upmanship. But many NGO regulars feel a bit too much like lost souls to me. And isn't Louisa just a slightly less earnest, slightly less rigid version of that woman she talks about from Free Gaza: with her idea of every day being a great day to get on a fishing boat and get shot at?
I hope Louisa finds herself a better man than she sort-of had in Gaza(try looking outside expat communities, would be my advice). And that she gets many more of those beach and dancing days.
Since Louisa clearly does love Gaza and the Gazans she writes about; now so do I. She gives a great idea of how very special the place was before the Zionists started to behave quite so badly. And how differently-very-special it is now. I like her light-touch use of history very much. And the ongoing stories of the sweet oranges and the destruction of the trees are more powerful than any polemic.
But I think she could have been more explicit about her relative privilege: the great area she lived in, with lots of space and enough money to take individual taxis everywhere.
And I worry more than a little about Louisa herself, as well. I've worked in some weird NGO places myself - though with less bombs, I'm pleased to say - and I wholeheartedly agree with Louisa's get-out-there-and-get-on-with-it approach. And with her distaste for the media monkeys who are in their own little world of one-upmanship. But many NGO regulars feel a bit too much like lost souls to me. And isn't Louisa just a slightly less earnest, slightly less rigid version of that woman she talks about from Free Gaza: with her idea of every day being a great day to get on a fishing boat and get shot at?
I hope Louisa finds herself a better man than she sort-of had in Gaza(try looking outside expat communities, would be my advice). And that she gets many more of those beach and dancing days.
October 18, 2021
4.5/5✨
I read the book in English but the review will be written in Bahasa Indonesia.
Aku dapet buku ini dari salah satu website yang ngasih beberapa ebook terkait Palestina secara gratis. Waktu itu aku download beberapa tp buku ini jd pilihan pertama yang aku baca tanpa cari tahu terlebih dahulu ini buku tntg apa sih. Trnyt buku nonfiksi and nonfiction (usually) is not my cup of tea jdnya aku sempet stop baca (selain itu krn ada buku yg lbh menarik aja saat itu).
Disaat aku mau cb mulai baca at least 1 buku nonfiksi per bulan, jd keinget kalo aku blm selesai baca buku ini (wkt itu stuck di 27% kalogasalah) dan akhirnya aku mencoba utk lanjut baca lg dan malah jd ketagihan.
Seperti yg aku blg di atas, aku bkn penikmat nonfiksi (walupun skrg lg mencoba utk memperluas bacaan ke nonfiksi) but i really enjoy this book! Mungkin krn bentuknya kyk cerita juga ya jdnya aku masih bisa nyambung ke buku ini tanpa ngantuk. Malah aku selese baca buku ini sekitar jam setengah dua pagi.
Buku ini padet banget. Selain menceritakan kehidupannya selama bekerja di Gaza, penulisnya juga menceritakan sejarah yang terjadi disana. Banyak bgt yg diceritain, mulai dari sejarah perpolitikannya hingga hal sesimpel dulu tuh org2 Gaza bisa naik kereta ke Cairo, Mesir, sedangkan skrg hal tersebut udah ga memungkinkan lagi krn akses orang Gaza utk keluar darisana tu dibatesin banget.
Banyak bgt cerita menarik disini, gaya penulisannya juga ga ngebosenin jd tentunya ga bikin ngantuk. Selain itu, penulis jg mengkritik para jurnalis yang meliput Gaza di sisi yang itu2 aja—seolah2 mengeksploitasi kesedihan mereka. Louisa, penulis buku ini, berhasil mengungkapkan bahwa Gaza punya banyak cerita lain yang gak diberitakan di media massa. Detail2 latar tempat dan suasana di buku ini juga dijelasin bgt sehingga kita bisa membayangkan suasana di sana tuh kyk apa. Namun, mnrtku akan lebih oke kalo disertakan foto2nya soalnya aku suka penasaran gt. Ya untuk alternatifnya bisa cari di internet sih emang (i did that) tp kan akan lbh nyaman kalo disajikan di buku.
Intinya, buku ini menarik & insightful juga karena aku jd tau banyak bgt hal dari sini + memicu keingintahuanku buat nyari2 lebih lanjut tntg brp hal.
I read the book in English but the review will be written in Bahasa Indonesia.
Aku dapet buku ini dari salah satu website yang ngasih beberapa ebook terkait Palestina secara gratis. Waktu itu aku download beberapa tp buku ini jd pilihan pertama yang aku baca tanpa cari tahu terlebih dahulu ini buku tntg apa sih. Trnyt buku nonfiksi and nonfiction (usually) is not my cup of tea jdnya aku sempet stop baca (selain itu krn ada buku yg lbh menarik aja saat itu).
Disaat aku mau cb mulai baca at least 1 buku nonfiksi per bulan, jd keinget kalo aku blm selesai baca buku ini (wkt itu stuck di 27% kalogasalah) dan akhirnya aku mencoba utk lanjut baca lg dan malah jd ketagihan.
Seperti yg aku blg di atas, aku bkn penikmat nonfiksi (walupun skrg lg mencoba utk memperluas bacaan ke nonfiksi) but i really enjoy this book! Mungkin krn bentuknya kyk cerita juga ya jdnya aku masih bisa nyambung ke buku ini tanpa ngantuk. Malah aku selese baca buku ini sekitar jam setengah dua pagi.
Buku ini padet banget. Selain menceritakan kehidupannya selama bekerja di Gaza, penulisnya juga menceritakan sejarah yang terjadi disana. Banyak bgt yg diceritain, mulai dari sejarah perpolitikannya hingga hal sesimpel dulu tuh org2 Gaza bisa naik kereta ke Cairo, Mesir, sedangkan skrg hal tersebut udah ga memungkinkan lagi krn akses orang Gaza utk keluar darisana tu dibatesin banget.
Banyak bgt cerita menarik disini, gaya penulisannya juga ga ngebosenin jd tentunya ga bikin ngantuk. Selain itu, penulis jg mengkritik para jurnalis yang meliput Gaza di sisi yang itu2 aja—seolah2 mengeksploitasi kesedihan mereka. Louisa, penulis buku ini, berhasil mengungkapkan bahwa Gaza punya banyak cerita lain yang gak diberitakan di media massa. Detail2 latar tempat dan suasana di buku ini juga dijelasin bgt sehingga kita bisa membayangkan suasana di sana tuh kyk apa. Namun, mnrtku akan lebih oke kalo disertakan foto2nya soalnya aku suka penasaran gt. Ya untuk alternatifnya bisa cari di internet sih emang (i did that) tp kan akan lbh nyaman kalo disajikan di buku.
Intinya, buku ini menarik & insightful juga karena aku jd tau banyak bgt hal dari sini + memicu keingintahuanku buat nyari2 lebih lanjut tntg brp hal.
December 5, 2019
“You see our life in Gaza, habibti. We suffer because of the Israelis and there is nothing to do but to work and to hope our situation improves. I want to be happy here, but — who can be happy in Gaza?”
“We Gazans used to dream of freedom. Now we dream of having electricity and enough fuel to make dinner on our kitchen stoves.”
“Can you imagine the feeling of knowing you can’t even protect your own children? It is like being eaten by fear.”
This book recounts the experiences of the author, a Scottish woman, on living in Gaza—said to be the world’s largest open-air prison—from 2007 to 2010. As part of her job for a human rights centre, Waugh documented cases of Israeli aggression and violence against the civilians of Gaza, while building friendships and collecting stories with the local Gazans.
I’ll start with my critique of this book. As a white, privileged, non-Muslim woman writing about Gaza, at times the author seems too keen to put herself, her judgements and her opinions at the central of the story — for instance, when a Palestinian carried out a suicide attack in Israel and killed an old woman, she griped that no one (that she knew of) expressed sympathy for the woman because they were all worried that the suicide bomber might be a Gazan (which will create harsh consequences on them) and only one Gazan condemned the suicide attack. But surely it’s understandable that most Gazans don’t have much emotional capacity to grieve over the death of a woman they don’t know hundreds of miles away when their own are being killed on the regular and they face more pressing, immediate concerns daily (safety for their own lives, for one)?? There’s also stories of her affair with a UN guy —totally dry and inconsequential— as well as stories of her parties which I found rather distasteful.
However, since this is the first book I’ve read on Gaza, it’s a good glimpse into the lives of ordinary Gazans and the intricacies of their sufferings, caused by the multiple oppressions perpetrated by the Israeli occupation, Hamas’ violent & corrupt rule, and the political rivalry between Hamas and Fatah. It is horrifying to read the human stories of the ordinary lives that are ruined because of decades of brutal violence, imprisonment, and corruption. She also talks about Gaza’s history before Israeli occupation: for instance, in the 1940s until 1960s there was a train route between Gaza and Cairo—people could travel easily between both cities and the future seemed bright. No one would’ve guessed that the Nakba would change their lives forever, and Waugh asks, “How do we ever know what’s going to befall our country, our community, or us?”
3.5/5.
“We Gazans used to dream of freedom. Now we dream of having electricity and enough fuel to make dinner on our kitchen stoves.”
“Can you imagine the feeling of knowing you can’t even protect your own children? It is like being eaten by fear.”
This book recounts the experiences of the author, a Scottish woman, on living in Gaza—said to be the world’s largest open-air prison—from 2007 to 2010. As part of her job for a human rights centre, Waugh documented cases of Israeli aggression and violence against the civilians of Gaza, while building friendships and collecting stories with the local Gazans.
I’ll start with my critique of this book. As a white, privileged, non-Muslim woman writing about Gaza, at times the author seems too keen to put herself, her judgements and her opinions at the central of the story — for instance, when a Palestinian carried out a suicide attack in Israel and killed an old woman, she griped that no one (that she knew of) expressed sympathy for the woman because they were all worried that the suicide bomber might be a Gazan (which will create harsh consequences on them) and only one Gazan condemned the suicide attack. But surely it’s understandable that most Gazans don’t have much emotional capacity to grieve over the death of a woman they don’t know hundreds of miles away when their own are being killed on the regular and they face more pressing, immediate concerns daily (safety for their own lives, for one)?? There’s also stories of her affair with a UN guy —totally dry and inconsequential— as well as stories of her parties which I found rather distasteful.
However, since this is the first book I’ve read on Gaza, it’s a good glimpse into the lives of ordinary Gazans and the intricacies of their sufferings, caused by the multiple oppressions perpetrated by the Israeli occupation, Hamas’ violent & corrupt rule, and the political rivalry between Hamas and Fatah. It is horrifying to read the human stories of the ordinary lives that are ruined because of decades of brutal violence, imprisonment, and corruption. She also talks about Gaza’s history before Israeli occupation: for instance, in the 1940s until 1960s there was a train route between Gaza and Cairo—people could travel easily between both cities and the future seemed bright. No one would’ve guessed that the Nakba would change their lives forever, and Waugh asks, “How do we ever know what’s going to befall our country, our community, or us?”
3.5/5.
October 22, 2014
I really enjoyed reading this book. It took a while to complete as many of the passages require some contemplating before moving on. I enjoyed reading about what the average person's lives are like living on the strip. The information in this book is definitely not what we would see in the news. As the author points out when upset by the sudden presence of multiple news crews interviewing the same families over and over; the news sweeps in and then back out after sensationalized stories are told.
Good book.
Good book.
October 10, 2025
Most of us might never set foot in Gaza, yet through her narratives...we took a journey there. Walking the streets of Gaza, sharing the tea with its people, it's like given a rare chance to do so. The author's vivid and compassionate storytelling allows us to experience it through her eyes where she acts as a window revealing the routines of everyday life, the resilience of its people, and the humanity often lost behind headlines.
One day, she was assigned to do her job at the most dangerous place and the biggest open air prison on earth, Gaza. She agreed because she wanted to experience it herself. I love the way she narrated the stories as if we're walking with her together to witness the many events that took place in the Strip. The people she meets, visiting the place of laughter, sharing tea at sunset and embracing the quiet resilience. By experiencing all of these, she admitted that Gaza isn't just a war zone!
Drawing from her time living in Gaza, she documents the daily realities of its people such as the routines, relationships, humor, and quiet endurance that persist despite the political and humanitarian blockade.
"Do you really believe that if Gazan fighters stop firing rockets, then so will Israel?"
Through personal encounters with teachers, fishermen, doctors, and students, she dismantles the collective image of Gaza as merely a site of conflict. People go for job, people are in love, people laugh and make joke. Other than that, what makes her writing stands out is the way she maintains a careful balance, ensuring the narrative remains accessible without oversimplifying Gaza’s complex history and geopolitics. She writes in a clear, descriptive, and empathetic style. She let her observations speak through lived experiences.
Her writing reminds me that understanding a place is not only about knowing its politics or history, but about listening to its stories. Ordinary stories yet the people's resilience are extraordinary through the quiet strength of its teachers, the patience of its fishermen, the hope that refuses to fade. I came to realize that this book not just a book about a land under siege, but a bridge of empathy where it connects us readers to live with dignity and grace despite isolation. Through this book also, we can still witness the humanity that endures where the world so often turns away.
One day, she was assigned to do her job at the most dangerous place and the biggest open air prison on earth, Gaza. She agreed because she wanted to experience it herself. I love the way she narrated the stories as if we're walking with her together to witness the many events that took place in the Strip. The people she meets, visiting the place of laughter, sharing tea at sunset and embracing the quiet resilience. By experiencing all of these, she admitted that Gaza isn't just a war zone!
Drawing from her time living in Gaza, she documents the daily realities of its people such as the routines, relationships, humor, and quiet endurance that persist despite the political and humanitarian blockade.
"Do you really believe that if Gazan fighters stop firing rockets, then so will Israel?"
Through personal encounters with teachers, fishermen, doctors, and students, she dismantles the collective image of Gaza as merely a site of conflict. People go for job, people are in love, people laugh and make joke. Other than that, what makes her writing stands out is the way she maintains a careful balance, ensuring the narrative remains accessible without oversimplifying Gaza’s complex history and geopolitics. She writes in a clear, descriptive, and empathetic style. She let her observations speak through lived experiences.
Her writing reminds me that understanding a place is not only about knowing its politics or history, but about listening to its stories. Ordinary stories yet the people's resilience are extraordinary through the quiet strength of its teachers, the patience of its fishermen, the hope that refuses to fade. I came to realize that this book not just a book about a land under siege, but a bridge of empathy where it connects us readers to live with dignity and grace despite isolation. Through this book also, we can still witness the humanity that endures where the world so often turns away.
December 29, 2025
Simply amazing social history book about a Gaza that will never be the same again 💔❤️
November 28, 2021
So soo good that I finished the book in less than 24hrs. Author did a really amazing job writing it that I could visualise all. This book will bring alive what it is like living in the shadow of Israel.
August 14, 2013
An excellent book to finish today as Israel-Palestinian peace talks are resuming in Jerusalem...
"Sometimes Gaza feels like a theatre where all of us - Israelis, Palestinians, expat journalists and human rights workers - have our ascribed roles in an unending script that the rest of the world is bored of watching"
"Sometimes Gaza feels like a theatre where all of us - Israelis, Palestinians, expat journalists and human rights workers - have our ascribed roles in an unending script that the rest of the world is bored of watching"
February 9, 2015
Ended up really enjoying this book. Almost everything you read about Gaza revolves around the Israeli siege, or over the last eight years Hamas's siege on top of the Israeli siege, so it was refreshing to read about the history of Gaza and how its residents manage to maintain a semblance of normalcy despite their crushing circumstances. Very powerful piece of work.
March 11, 2021
Beautiful!
This book gives a great insight into the lives of ordinary Gaza people, who have to co exist with so many political issues for so many years. It's beautifully and sympathetically written and I believe from the heart of the writer.
This book gives a great insight into the lives of ordinary Gaza people, who have to co exist with so many political issues for so many years. It's beautifully and sympathetically written and I believe from the heart of the writer.
October 27, 2022
I finished this book in the Toronto airport en route to Tel Aviv. This is a very interesting, very readable. very human, very informative nonfiction account of Louisa Wough's 2 years in the Gaza strip. The title refers to the fact that when she left for the last time her friends said "meet me in Gaza because I can't leave." Waugh paints a portrait that really makes you understand why people choose to live in Gaza even though it's a two mile by 5 mi prison. Even when people escape they come back because their families and their homes are there. The author herself leaves and comes back several times with increasing uncertainty about whether she'll be able to get either an exit or an entrance visa. But her description of Gaza makes you want to be there. It's a beautiful stretch of land inhabited by beautiful people that are inprisoned both by hamas and by Israel it seems.
It would be overstatement to say I understand the politics, but this human way of understanding the politics is the only way there's any hope for me. As I understand it, the Israelis think that they have to keep the Palestinians at bay by occasionally bombing them, but the only reason they think that is that occasionally the Gazans do hurl missiles over the border to let the Israelis know that they're not going to go down without a fight.
Waugh describes many of the time she crossed the border and it really seems like the hummus who control it are putting up a big long act to make it all seem very difficult. The hamas control of the strip doesn't make much sense to me. At one point they were elected, and when they took control they became very militaristic, as I understand it, mostly because their main goal is to stick it to the Israelis, who they despise.
As a journalist Waugh is there to keep an account of the atrocities against Gazans by Israelis, and there are many. It seems their favorite thing to do is round up a bunch of people into a building and then bomb it.
I was reminded of the myth of Sisyphe you know the one where every day he keeps rolling the rock up the hill only to have it roll back down again when I heard about the Gazans at the border who keep planting their fruit trees only to have them raised by the Israeli or the Hamas army. They plant them again, hoping that this time they'll last long enough to grow fruit. People suggest they leave and move elsewhere in Gaza but that's their land and they want to stay there.
How do we know, Waugh writes, what is going to befall our country our community or us? At that point she's talking about a rail line that used to go between Gaza and Cairo which is now abandoned and in disrepair because you can travel between those two cities. She found two people that were still alive that used to take that train every month but everyone else has forgotten about it. She remarked that if you had told them that in 50 years no one would be able to even remember that train line, they wouldn't have believed it. I've been thinking about the fact that it's true for me too. I don't actually know what will befall, our country, our community, or us, but I do have a predictability to my life that these people do not have and they find joy all the same.
It would be overstatement to say I understand the politics, but this human way of understanding the politics is the only way there's any hope for me. As I understand it, the Israelis think that they have to keep the Palestinians at bay by occasionally bombing them, but the only reason they think that is that occasionally the Gazans do hurl missiles over the border to let the Israelis know that they're not going to go down without a fight.
Waugh describes many of the time she crossed the border and it really seems like the hummus who control it are putting up a big long act to make it all seem very difficult. The hamas control of the strip doesn't make much sense to me. At one point they were elected, and when they took control they became very militaristic, as I understand it, mostly because their main goal is to stick it to the Israelis, who they despise.
As a journalist Waugh is there to keep an account of the atrocities against Gazans by Israelis, and there are many. It seems their favorite thing to do is round up a bunch of people into a building and then bomb it.
I was reminded of the myth of Sisyphe you know the one where every day he keeps rolling the rock up the hill only to have it roll back down again when I heard about the Gazans at the border who keep planting their fruit trees only to have them raised by the Israeli or the Hamas army. They plant them again, hoping that this time they'll last long enough to grow fruit. People suggest they leave and move elsewhere in Gaza but that's their land and they want to stay there.
How do we know, Waugh writes, what is going to befall our country our community or us? At that point she's talking about a rail line that used to go between Gaza and Cairo which is now abandoned and in disrepair because you can travel between those two cities. She found two people that were still alive that used to take that train every month but everyone else has forgotten about it. She remarked that if you had told them that in 50 years no one would be able to even remember that train line, they wouldn't have believed it. I've been thinking about the fact that it's true for me too. I don't actually know what will befall, our country, our community, or us, but I do have a predictability to my life that these people do not have and they find joy all the same.
March 25, 2022
Journalists, including the author, describe Gaza as "the world's largest open-air prison." Despite that moniker, there's an oppressive claustrophobia in many of the stories Louisa Waugh tells on behalf of Gazan people. Most Gazans spend their entire lives in the 25 x 6 mile territory, flanked by a bullying Israel and an Egypt that, at the time the author lived in Gaza, didn't allow the movement of goods or people across its border. For Westerners in particular, I think this book does an honest job of highlighting the happiness and joy of normal Gazans living under occupation, while equally describing the terror and violence they experience daily. Understanding that it's likely difficult not to write a book like this without including a decent amount of stories about yourself, the most important and most impactful are the ones Waugh transcribes directly from her tape recorder, like those of her dear friend Saida whose words became the title of this book: "Meet me in Gaza, because I cannot come to meet you."
March 21, 2019
Growing up I remember the conflict between Israel and Palestine dominating the news, but I never really knew much about daily life in either places. In this book Louisa Waught writes about her daily life while living in Gaza. She returned to the Gaza strip on a few different occasions and documents these visits. It's an outsiders perspective of course, but it's still fascinating to read about what life is like, so different from what I'm used to. While the book isn't that sad, there are many exciting adventures to be had and lively places to visit, life in Gaza is difficult and war is always looming. But there is a lot of room for happier stories and daily life tales, a nice insight to an area we hear about all the time yet don't seem to really know much about.
May 26, 2023
The first few chapters really didn't do this book justice. 25% in, I put this book down because I was somewhat bored and couldn't find anything interesting. Months later, I decided to pick it up again for good and gave it another try. It surprised me that turned our the story gets better with every chapter.
The choice of phrases, the outline of every story, the way the author describes the people and the places are very humane & empathetic, and most importantly: not pretentious. The author gave me insightful viewpoints about Gaza and its people, with a glimpse of historical and geopolitical trivias here and there.
Suitable reading if you're in the mood for:
❁ conflict-zone journalist memoir
❁ descriptive human interest stories
❁ witty conversations
The choice of phrases, the outline of every story, the way the author describes the people and the places are very humane & empathetic, and most importantly: not pretentious. The author gave me insightful viewpoints about Gaza and its people, with a glimpse of historical and geopolitical trivias here and there.
Suitable reading if you're in the mood for:
❁ conflict-zone journalist memoir
❁ descriptive human interest stories
❁ witty conversations
May 31, 2021
Interesante libro sobre la Franja de Gaza. Louisa es una periodista escocesa que se desplaza a la franja de Gaza para trabajar en una ONG. Durante su estancia conoce profundamente la vida, la historia de la franja y de sus habitantes, atrapados entre la violencia de Israel y la ideología de Hamas. Buen relato de las penalidades, las dificultades, el carácter y el espíritu del pueblo gazatí.
(creo que de momento no hay traducción al español)
(creo que de momento no hay traducción al español)
May 24, 2020
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I was expecting it to be heavy going but it has been written so skilfully. It is a fantastic balance of warmth, often humour and genuine interest in people, and really just celebrating the good of people in spite of sometimes horrific surroundings and persecution.
July 9, 2020
Good read.
So good to learn about the oppressed people of Gaza. Great characters involved. Very educational. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to know the truth about the Gaza Israel conflict.
So good to learn about the oppressed people of Gaza. Great characters involved. Very educational. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to know the truth about the Gaza Israel conflict.
May 24, 2024
This is the longest I’ve taken to read a book in a while. It’s a heavy read (obviously), even if the author keeps things as factual as possible. What struck me most were the descriptions of Gaza as a beautiful city and the warmth Gazans continue to give in the face of destruction.
March 13, 2024
Very educational, funny, moving and devastating all at once. And very brave.
August 23, 2015
Waugh successfully sifts nuggets of humanity from the most depressing of circumstances and gives her readers a poignant understanding of how both the individual and collective mindset of Palestinians have been shaped by long-term occupation and oppression.
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