Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller: This Is Gaza

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Today, Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller join us to discuss Daybreak in Gaza, an anthology they have co-edited which illuminates in vivid detail the extraordinary individuals, meaningful places, and incredible richness of a people, culture, and heritage undergoing traumatic devastation. Through vignettes of writers and artists, but also farmers, doctors, students, athletes, shopkeepers, and teachers, Daybreak in Gaza offers unforgettable stories of hope, life, loss, and survival, and of communities determined to resist and prevail. This is Gaza, evoked by the voices of the people of Gaza themselves. Chaired by Selma Dabbagh.

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