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Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist. In 2010, Yazbek was selected as one of the Beirut39, organized by the Hay Festival. In 2011, she took part in the popular uprising against the Assad regime and was forced into exile soon after. In 2012 she was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize for her book A Woman in the Crossfire, and received the PEN Sweden Tucholsky Prize and the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award the following year. More about this author >
Leri Price is an award-winning literary translator of contemporary Arabic fiction. She has been a Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature three times, in 2024 and 2021 for her translations of Samar Yazbek’s Where the Wind Calls Home and Planet of Clay, and in 2019 for Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work. More about this author >
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Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. In Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life—a title adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombing—Yazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged 13 to 65, who have witnessed what history may remember as one of the most savage military offensives of our time.
Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable loss—homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated—and many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks. But these survivors remain determined to share their experiences, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate.
