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 has degrees in Media and Communication from the University of Sussex and King's College London. He is active in many cultural initiatives across Palestine and 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 the literary magazine Granta.

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.

'A most significant collection, one that frightens, awes and inspires, the timeliest of reminders of our common humanity and the irrepressible force of the written word.' --Philippe Sands

'This astonishing book opened my eyes to the brutality that is being visited upon Gaza, and to the humanity of those suffering it. I hope we can all learn something - about steadfastness, about dignity - from them. Please read it.' --Brian Eno

'Heartbreaking and inspiring ... a necessary, intelligent call to intellectual arms and proof that hope is still possible.' --Alberto Manguel

'A love letter to Gaza. A heartbreaking testament to the beauty and courage of Palestinian people in the face of extraordinary brutality.' --Isabella Hammad

'A necessary, profoundly moving collection. At once a lyrical overview of a rich cultural landscape, and a devastating indictment of genocide, and of culture's destruction.' --China Miéville

'Daybreak in Gaza combines eyewitness accounts with poems and photographs ... Doctors, shopkeepers and farmers have contributed, as well as writers and poets ... Part of the book's appeal lies in its liberal definition of "culture"; there is even a recipe for fogaiyya, which Gazans eat in winter.' --Lindsey Hilsum, Times Literary Supplement

Publisher: Saqi Books

Pub date: 2024-10-29

Length: 336 pages