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