When: July 17, 2025. 6:30 pm–8 pm

Where: Southern Exposure | 3030 20th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Join us for an evening of Palestinian food and a community reading on the occasion of the San Francisco launch of There Is No Life on Other Planets (2024). Originally published in 2014 by Conflict Kitchen, the book features interviews with Palestinian children living in the West Bank and Gaza. Ten years later, the book has been republished alongside eight new interviews, with some of the same children who are now young adults currently living in Gaza.

All new interviews were conducted in Gaza by Abeer A. in May of 2024, nearly seven months into a humanitarian catastrophe that has repeatedly displaced 2.2 million and killed an estimated 55,000 people, more than half women and children.

The event is free and open to the public. All funds raised from the sale of the book will be donated to support the Gaza Soup Kitchen, a network of kitchens providing hot meals and clean drinking water to communities in Gaza.

If you can’t make it to the event BOOKS CAN BE PURCHASED ONLINE OR IN-PERSON AT CITY OF ASYLUM BOOK STORE

80 pages perfect-bound with fold-in flaps. 

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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 Southern Exposure and City of Asylum Books for supporting sales and distribution.  

Printing by Kreider Printing, Pittsburgh.