On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture , co-edited by Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller, and supported by Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia.

Muna and Teller write that Daybreak in Gaza, which was completed from March to May 2024, "is an attempt to amplify marginalized voices and illuminate hidden histories to evoke the spirit of a place under attack through the lives of its people. We contacted hundreds of people: not just Gaza’s poets and writers, but also its doctors and shopkeepers, its farmers and office workers. At a time of profound anguish, bereavement and loss, we found that Gazans – even those surviving starvation and bombardment inside Gaza – were not only willing to talk, but often desperate to do so.

In many cases

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