Join us for the launch of Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, an urgent collection of personal testimonies, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage.
Ahmed Alnaouq, Tareq Baconi, and Yara Eid will join the book’s editors, Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro, in conversation.
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Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and human rights activist based in London. He is the co-founder and director of We Are Not Numbers and a journalist with Palestine Deep Dive. Ahmed holds a degree in English Literature from Al-Azhar University in Gaza and an MA in International Journalism from Leeds University, where he was a Chevening Scholar.
Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He is the author of Fire in Every Direction, and Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance. His work has appeared in, among others, The New York Times and The Baffler, and he contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He has also written for film; his award-winning BFI short One Like Him, a queer love story set in Jordan, screened in over thirty festivals. He serves as president of the board of al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
Yara Eid is a Palestinian journalist and human rights advocate who has worked for international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International. She is a writer who explores the struggles of living under apartheid and occupation. Yara has worked as a war journalist and covered the 2022 aggression against Gaza from the ground. Her work has been published in Al Jazeera, Los Angeles Times, and the New Arab, among other publications. She is most known for her heated debate with a Sky News anchor that went viral because of her strong arguments, which led to more than a million followers supporting her work on her social media platform.
Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani writer and novelist. She co-edited, along with Sonia Faleiro, Gaza: The Story of a Genocide. Her memoir The Hour of the Wolf comes out in February 2026.
Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Changing Modern Asia (2025). Her previous books include The Good Girls, nominated for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction, and the Premio Feltrinelli, and Beautiful Thing, shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. She is the founder of the literary mentorship program South Asia Speaks and co-founder of Books for Gaza.
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Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land, and their future.
Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Barghouti examines the brutality of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, while Eman Bashir describes the phenomenon of a “wounded child, no surviving family.” These voices, among many others, illuminate the enduring psychological, physical, and generational toll of state violence.
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