BCF Daybreak in Gaza : Book Launch Tour
Posted on 8th October 2024This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by Israel’s seemingly endless onslaught. Today, as Palestinian heritage is being destroyed, the survivors of Gaza preserve their culture and history through literature, music, stories and memories.
This remarkable book humanises the people dismissed as mere statistics and portrays lives
full of joy and meaning. Daybreak in Gaza stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction,
and as a testament to the people of Gaza.
Tour Dates
Oct 9th: Coventry Warwick University, awaiting confirmation
Oct 9th: Nottingham Five Leaves Bookshop 7pm SOLD OUT
Oct 10th: Leeds Little Bookshop, Chapel Allerton 7pm SOLD OUT
Oct 11th: Leeds Little Bookshop, Chapel Allerton 5.30pm SOLD OUT
Oct 11th: Glossop Labour Club 8.45pm
Oct 12th: Derby Arabiya school, Landau Forte College 10.30am
Oct 12th: Stoke-on-Trent Drop City Books 6pm
Oct 13th: Bristol Words4Gaza special event, Malcolm X Centre 5pm
Oct 15th: Vienna Bruno Kreisky forum for International Dialogue 7pm
Oct 16th: London Arcola Theatre, with Jhalak Prize/And Other Stories
Oct 30th: Glasgow University of Strathclyde, 7.30pm, more information here
Oct 31st: Edinburgh Lighthouse Books at Augustine United Church 7pm
Nov 8th: London St James’ Church, book talk and supper, 6-9pm, more information here
All details of events, including discussions and presentations around the UK with key speakers, please head to https://www.matthewteller.com/events/
About the Editors
Mahmoud Muna is a writer, publisher and bookseller from Jerusalem, Palestine. He runs Jerusalem’s celebrated Educational
Bookshop and the Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel, both centres of the city’s literary scene. Muna writes regularly on culture and politics, with bylines in the London Review of Books and Jerusalem Quarterly, among others. He recently published the first- ever Arabic edition of Granta magazine.
Matthew Teller is a UK-based author and broadcaster writing on place and culture, with a special focus on Palestine and the wider Middle East. His 2022 book Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of
the Old City was a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Teller produces and presents documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and World Service, and reports for BBC Radio’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’. His
journalism is published by the BBC, Guardian, Independent, Times and
Financial Times, among others. Teller is the author of Quite Alone: Journalism from the Middle East 2008–2019 and several travel guides, including the Rough Guide to Jordan.
