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Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza

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With stories of strength, resilience and loss, Syrian journalist Samar Yazbek shares real accounts from 26 Palestinians who fought for survival on October 7th, 2023 and the harrowing days that followed.

Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature

An acclaimed Syrian journalist crafts a vital portrait of October 7, 2023, and its aftermath through the harrowing yet life-affirming accounts of 26 Palestinians.


Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. In Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life—a title adapted from one of the fl...

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