# A Historian in Gaza

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- Authors: [Jean-Pierre Filiu](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-pierre-filiu)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2025-11-27
- Genres: History

## Description

‘The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.’ Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land’s people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his unforgettable, unbearably intimate account of one month in a place shattered by Israel’s all-out war. When the historian returned to Gaza, he arrived under circumstances unimaginably different from his many past visits since 1980: only a limited number of convoys were allowed into the Strip, and he was one of the few humanitarians able to enter, this time by night. He remained inside for thirty-three days, and emerged determined to bear witness to the devastation―to the Gazans fighting simply to live, every single day. Filiu’s haunting portrait of a land betrayed is a grim work of war reportage, documented with the acuity of a historian; and a lyrical narrative of human suffering, and human dignity.

## Editions

### A Historian in Gaza

- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
- ISBN: 978-18-0526-525-2
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2025-11-27
- Language: en_US