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All royalties from the sales of this book go to the student authors in Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\nSurviving at the darkest extremes of suffering, of destruction\u00a0and displacement, famine and the constant threat of maiming\u00a0or death, these young writers speak to us with piercing lucidity.\u00a0Their resilience is their only form of optimism. Paradoxically, reading them lifts the heart.
\n\u2013 Ian McEwan<\/strong>, author of Atonement and Enduring Love<\/p>\nA moving, painful and yet hopeful collection of the younger generation of the people of Gaza. Sumud, resilience, was never so powerful and clear, as it appears in this must read and urgent collection. \u2014Ilan Papp\u00e9<\/strong>, professor, University of Exeter\u2019s College of Social Sciences and International Studies, author, A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict<\/p>\nIn the heart of suffering, words are born \u2014 and from beneath the rubble, creativity rises. This book is more than a collection of written pages; it is the echo of resilient souls and the cries of pens that spoke when voices were silenced. \u2014 Professor Dr. Omar Kh. Melad<\/strong>, President of Al-Azhar University\u2013 Gaza<\/p>\nWe Are Still Here<\/em> is not a book about war \u2014 it is a book about being alive after the world has decided you are already gone, written in rooms that may no longer stand. These pages are dispatches from the thin edge of the present: letters from hunger, fragments of interrupted lives, flashes of hope so unyielding it burns. Here, young people shape the record of their time on earth, knowing that their time may be short. You will not leave this book with the comfort of closure. It will stay with you long after the final page has turned. \u2014 Leila Sansour<\/strong>, filmmaker and founder of Open Bethlehem<\/p>\nThese Gaza poignant reflections in prose and poetry from the midst of genocide are both heart-rending and full of life and promise. Israel may have physically killed many of their young authors, but will never kill their words, which live on in this powerful collection of their writings. \u2014 Ghada Karmi.<\/strong><\/p>\nDeath is not an ideation for these young writers, but an everyday reality. This collection is a testimony to the power of words. It reveals how love, creativity and hope can galvanise us against fear and inaction. \u2014 Selma Dabbagh<\/strong>, author of the novel Out of It<\/em> and editor of the anthology We Wrote in Symbols; Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers<\/em>.<\/p>\nSara Alkhaldy, one of the contributors to We Are Still Here<\/a><\/em>, a new Gazan anthology of student writing, says: \u2018I wish I could bottle the scent of our home and take it with me as I left.\u2019 Rula Elkhair writes of studying during displacement: \u2018Even in places with no electricity, no water and no stable internet, I installed an eSIM on my phone and climbed to the rooftop under buzzing drones to download lectures. I took exams in caf\u00e9s by the sea. I studied while hungry, while afraid, while grieving.\u2019 \u2014 Selma Dabbagh in London Review of BooksKnowledge of the Relevant Facts<\/a><\/p>\n
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All royalties from the sales of this book go to the student authors in Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n Surviving at the darkest extremes of suffering, of destruction\u00a0and displacement, famine and the constant threat of maiming\u00a0or death, these young writers speak to us with piercing lucidity.\u00a0Their resilience is their only form of optimism. Paradoxically, reading them lifts the heart. A moving, painful and yet hopeful collection of the younger generation of the people of Gaza. Sumud, resilience, was never so powerful and clear, as it appears in this must read and urgent collection. \u2014Ilan Papp\u00e9<\/strong>, professor, University of Exeter\u2019s College of Social Sciences and International Studies, author, A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict<\/p>\n In the heart of suffering, words are born \u2014 and from beneath the rubble, creativity rises. This book is more than a collection of written pages; it is the echo of resilient souls and the cries of pens that spoke when voices were silenced. \u2014 Professor Dr. Omar Kh. Melad<\/strong>, President of Al-Azhar University\u2013 Gaza<\/p>\n We Are Still Here<\/em> is not a book about war \u2014 it is a book about being alive after the world has decided you are already gone, written in rooms that may no longer stand. These pages are dispatches from the thin edge of the present: letters from hunger, fragments of interrupted lives, flashes of hope so unyielding it burns. Here, young people shape the record of their time on earth, knowing that their time may be short. You will not leave this book with the comfort of closure. It will stay with you long after the final page has turned. \u2014 Leila Sansour<\/strong>, filmmaker and founder of Open Bethlehem<\/p>\n These Gaza poignant reflections in prose and poetry from the midst of genocide are both heart-rending and full of life and promise. Israel may have physically killed many of their young authors, but will never kill their words, which live on in this powerful collection of their writings. \u2014 Ghada Karmi.<\/strong><\/p>\n Death is not an ideation for these young writers, but an everyday reality. This collection is a testimony to the power of words. It reveals how love, creativity and hope can galvanise us against fear and inaction. \u2014 Selma Dabbagh<\/strong>, author of the novel Out of It<\/em> and editor of the anthology We Wrote in Symbols; Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sara Alkhaldy, one of the contributors to We Are Still Here<\/a><\/em>, a new Gazan anthology of student writing, says: \u2018I wish I could bottle the scent of our home and take it with me as I left.\u2019 Rula Elkhair writes of studying during displacement: \u2018Even in places with no electricity, no water and no stable internet, I installed an eSIM on my phone and climbed to the rooftop under buzzing drones to download lectures. I took exams in caf\u00e9s by the sea. I studied while hungry, while afraid, while grieving.\u2019 \u2014 Selma Dabbagh in London Review of BooksKnowledge of the Relevant Facts<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Ian McEwan<\/strong>, author of Atonement and Enduring Love<\/p>\n