They Don't Want You to Read this Book
New Book on Gaza: Eyes on Gaza
The attempt to censor knowledge of the genocide in Gaza has been pervasive. It unfolds off and online, at corporate offices and college campuses. Most viciously, the conspiracy to bury knowledge of genocide and the unfolding horror taking place across Gaza is taking place across the pages of rolling history.
This is precisely why I wrote this book, Eyes on Gaza: Witnessing Annihilation, which is available for pre-order now.
The book is the first to be published on Gaza since the beginning of the genocide, pairing analysis of the morbid events across the besieged Strip, Lebanon, and beyond with the artwork of acclaimed Palestinian artist Mohamed Sabaaneh.
It is far more than a must read. But given the scale of censorship and severity of erasure of Palestinian stories, a book that marks the moment. A book that not only speaks truth to power, but also resists the very forces conspiring to write Gaza out of history. An intellectual form of genocide that stands alongside the airstrikes, tanks, white phosphorus bombs, and military campaign to erase a people.
Intellectual genocides are a companion to the mass killing we see, vividly, on our timelines today, and for 385 days before.
As Chinua Achebe stated, “History will always glorify the hunter until the lions have their own historians.”
This is a time for lions. For historians rising from the bottom to reclaim our stories, and write back at empire and affirm that our people in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Yemen, and accosted places beyond and in between are not erased. Not erased from their land, and from the bloodier terrain of history.
Eyes on Gaza makes that very stance.
It is far more than a book, but an act of intellectual resistance forged by words and art. It is a standing testament that the genocide will not be forgotten, and a living history that this catastrophe will not be forgotten.
Pre-Order Eyes on Gaza today. Make sure your family and friends, classmates and colleagues, children and parents learn about the genocide in Gaza. And more than just learn, absorb what western media outlets, Meta, the US and Israeli governments don’t want you to know.
Order Eyes on Gaza today by clicking this link.
Khaled A. Beydoun is a professor and author, and shares his daily insights on social media at @khaledbeydoun.
I ordered copies for myself, friends and a few family members who, despite watching or not watching this horrific stain on the so called mantle of "humanity", for the last 13 months, and reading the actual definition of " genocide" still, will not admit what it is. Mankind still refuses to accept that " those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
My copy arrived two days ago. I was rocked to the core the moment the cover was revealed…a beautiful Palestinian reinterpretation of Klimt’s “The Kiss” that will never leave me. I was going to spend the weekend painting but your book has captivated me. I’m over halfway through and will most likely finish reading it tonight. The art is truly profound. In their simplicity and brilliant creative conceptualization, Sabaaneh’s illustrations clearly
communicate emotional truths that words take much longer to apprehend and which linger as mind-pictures that seep into the heart. Your writing reads much like a diary that might have been written by any of us who have been consumed and permanently altered by the genocide as we witness it from afar, yet your personal connection brings everything we’ve seen so close to home. Thank you for your thoughtful insights, tributes to the heroes of Gaza like Motaz, and dedication to making sure Gaza isn’t written out of history. YOU are a lion. And we will never forget.