Sept 24, 2024

In 2014, Conflict Kitchen published There Is No Life on Other Planets, a book featuring interviews with Palestinian children living in the West Bank and Gaza. Ten years later, we are republishing those original interviews alongside new conversations with some of those same children, who are now young adults. This edition also includes eight new interviews with young adults currently living in Gaza.

All funds raised from the sale of this book will be donated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

All new interviews were conducted in Gaza by Abeer A. in May of 2024, nearly seven months into a humanitarian catastrophe that has displaced over two million and killed more than 40,000 people, including an estimated 16,000 children, to date.

BOOKS CAN BE PURCHASED ONLINE OR IN-PERSON AT CITY OF ASYLUM BOOK STORE

IF ORDERING OUTSIDE OF THE US PLEASE EMAIL books@cityofasylumpittsburgh.org WITH YOUR FULL NAME, NUMBER, AND HOME ADDRESS AND WE WILL CALL YOU WITH A SHIPPING QUOTE TO BE PAID OVER THE PHONE.

 80 pages perfect-bound with fold-in flaps. 

Hold the date: 3pm, October 27th at City of Asylum Book Store for a community reading/book launch and Palestinian food. Catering provided by Ali Baba

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to all the young Palestinians who agreed to be interviewed in 2014 and 2024. Additional thanks to the interviewers on this project, including Abeer A. (Gaza 2014 and 2024), Lana T. and Mar Senda (West Bank 2014).  Photography by Abeer A. (Gaza 2014/2024) and Dania Assaf (West Bank 2014). 

Translations by Julie Azzam.

Design by Brett Yasko.

Financial support for this book comes from Kadist, emergentCNY, and Noon at Night. Special thanks to the team at City of Asylum Books for supporting sales and distribution.  

Printing by Kreider Printing, Pittsburgh.