Requiem for Gaza

Requiem for Gaza does not simply tell us stories about the genocide. It plunges us into a three-dimensional world of words and graphic images. We enter into the heart of the genocide itself. We are there, alongside the people facing danger and fleeing from it. We feel what the people in Gaza feel. We hold our breath when they approach death and struggle to avoid it. Requiem for Gaza depicts the tragedy of the Palestinians as it happens. Art becomes life. Words and images light the way to truth.–Atef Abu Saif (author of A Suspended Life, The Drone Eats With Me)
In Requiem for Gaza, testimony meets truth’s arrow. Hedges’ prose combines with Sacco’s lines to produce a requiem for the slaughtered, a mirror for the indifferent.–Yanis Varoufakis (author of Technofuedalism: What Killed Capitalism, Foundations of Economics)

Chris Hedges is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times. An Arabic speaker, he spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine, much of that time in Gaza. He is the author of sixteen books, including A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine, the New York Times bestseller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (co-written with Joe Sacco), and War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, based on his two decades as a war correspondent in Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans.

He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. For over a decade, he has also taught college courses in the New Jersey prison system through Rutgers University. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, and he is an ordained Presbyterian minister. In 2009, he was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by Starr King School for the Ministry in Oakland, California. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Joe Sacco is a Maltese-born cartoonist and journalist based in Portland. He is a seminal figure in comics journalism, establishing the form’s seriousness and legitimacy in the 1990s with his groundbreaking investigative graphic novel Palestine. He has since become the most prominent figure in the genre he virtually created, and has published numerous investigative works of graphic journalism, including Safe Area Gorazde, Footnotes in Gaza, Paying the Land, and his most recent book, The Once and Future Riot. He is also the co-author with Chris Hedges of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Sacco is the recipient of the American Book Award, multiple Eisner and Harvey awards, and in 2023 was awarded a Doctor of Literature degree (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta.

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