Over the past thirty-five years, Mahmoud Assaf has collected over thirty thousand books in his Gaza City home.
Despite being displaced five times, the renowned Palestinian author manages to keep tabs on his collection, entrusted to the watchful care of neighbors.
With Assaf’s home still relatively untouched, in a city reduced to rubble, his library caught the eye of a local baker, who called its owner up with a chilling proposal.
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A Historian Surveys the Wreckage in Gaza
French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu has visited Gaza many times — but he had to make his most recent visit in December in secret.jacobin.com
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