Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displacement has impacted the lives of Palestinians—students, mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, educators, and those who already survived the Nakba of 1948. In Gaza, 2.3 million Palestinians have been subjected to starvation, mass destruction, and targeted killing. Yet they endure.

This book is a commitment to the longstanding Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. The stories in this collection are not merely accounts of suffering, they are assertions of humanity, resistance, hope, and the unbreakable bond that ties Palestinians to their homeland.

Displaced in Gaza is a collaboration between the American Friends Service Committee and the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya.

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Speakers:  

Norma Hashim has been involved in advocacy and relief work for Palestine since the 2008 attacks on Gaza, and is treasurer of Viva Palestina Malaysia . Other than Displaced in Gaza, she has co-edited three books with Yousef Aljamal on Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons - “The Prisoners’ Diaries“(2013) , “Dreaming of Freedom: Palestinian child prisoners speak”(2016) which has been published in the US in support of a legislative bill for human rights for Palestinian children, and “ A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers”(2021). In 2022 she founded the Hashim Sani Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Malaya to address the need for a Palestine research and knowledge.

Zoe Jannuzi works as the Palestine Activism program coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee.

Dr Yousef Aljamal is a Palestinian journalist and author from Gaza. He is the Gaza Coordinator at the AFSC. He is the co-editor of Displaced in Gaza. He holds an MA degree from the Department of International and Strategic Studies at the University of Malaya in Malaysia. He was awarded his PhD from the Middle East Institute at Sakarya University in Turkey. In addition to his research interests in diaspora, security, and indigenous studies, Yousef Aljamal has been involved on a number of book projects including translations of books on Palestinian prisoners, among them “Dreaming of Freedom: Palestinian Child Prisoners Speak” (2016), and a collection of stories about the shared struggle of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers. Most recently he edited “If I Must Die” an anthology of poetry and prose by the recently assassinated Palestinian poet and academic, Dr Refaat Alareer.
 

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