A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza

by Dervla Murphy

Book Overview

Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Through reported conversations, she creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment of self-governing Palestine. Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780600674
• ISBN13: 9781780600673
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"