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Journalism of Courage
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama – Nathan Thrall
Based on a 2012 incident documented by journalist Nathan Thrall, this non-fiction work unpacks a mosaic of characters – paramedics, parents, police – that converge on the site of a bus accident in Palestine. Through the eyes of Abed Salama, a father who can’t locate his son in the wreckage, the story, according to writer Arundhati Roy, explores the “cunning and complex ways in which a state can hammer down a people and yet earn the applause and adulation of the civilized world.”
Footnotes in Gaza (2009) — Joe Sacco
Drawn from personal interviews with Palestinians in Khan Yunis and Rafah, comic artist Joe Sacco wrote and illustrated a graphic narrative of the violence that hit Gaza when the Israeli army invaded the region to take control of the Suez Canal.
Enemies and Neighbours (2017) — Ian Black
Pivoting on the 1917 Balfour declaration that marked Britain’s exit from the conflict, journalist Ian Black pens a history drawn from his own reporting in the region. Apart from watershed moments up till 2017, it explores everyday life in several contentious zones in Israel and Palestine to humanise a conflict that the world has watched for a long time.
From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) — Thomas L Friedman
American journalist Thomas L Friedman draws from his decade of reporting in the Middle East and narrates his experiences in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and in Jerusalem during the first Intifada led by Palestinians, motivated by Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
On Palestine – Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky
A sequel to their co-authored Gaza in Crisis, Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky dissect the various solutions proposed to the Israel-Palestine conflict – including the binational and one-state solutions, and the demand of ‘Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions’ made of Israel – in a series of commentaries and essays.
