Gaza Held in Time

“A jewel of pain and memory.” —Patrizia Cecconi

Two Voices. One Shattered Homeland. A Story the World Can’t Ignore.

About the Book

Gaza Held in Time: A Tapestry of Two Lives is a groundbreaking memoir written by Tareq AlSourani and Yara Nasser, two Palestinian teenagers whose lives were torn apart by the 2023–2025 genocide. One fled to Egypt, carrying the guilt of escape. The other stayed, documenting Gaza’s descent into famine, mass graves, and the quiet rebellion of dreams.

Their alternating narratives—raw, poetic, and unflinchingly honest—weave together moments of piercing beauty (the scent of jasmine in Gaza’s streets, the taste of warm knafeh from Abu Al-Soud) with the horror of drone strikes, forced displacement, and the systematic erasure of their home.

This is not just a book about war. It’s about what it means to love a place the world is trying to destroy.

Why This Book Matters

• A Firsthand Account of Genocide: Written in real time from inside and outside Gaza, it shatters statistics with intimate, devastating testimony.
• A Testament to Resilience: From cooking over open fires to smuggling words past censorship, their creativity defies annihilation.
• A Call to Remember: “We wrote so Gaza would not fade into headlines.” This book is a lifeline to stories the world must not forget.

Praise for Gaza Held in Time

“Devastating… These could be our children. A brave and necessary book.”
—Yahia Lababidi, Palestinian poet

“Their words should haunt us forever.”
—Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, University of London

“A door left open for memory, for return, for rebuilding.”
—Aref Husseini, author of Half-Ashkenazi

Excerpt: The Day Everything Changed

“October 7, 2023. I woke to the sky screaming. By noon, the internet was gone. We played cards in silence, waiting for the ceiling to collapse. When it didn’t, we realized: this was the new normal. Gaza was being unmade in front of us.” —Yara Nasser

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