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Your Stories Look Me in the Eyes
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.00
ISBN13: 9781967022205
Publisher: Fomite
Published: Oct 22 2025
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From societies living together yet drowning in hatred and despair emerge two souls who see the truth in the wisdom of their prophets: Feed the hungry and greet with words of peace those you know and those you do not know and the work of righteousness shall be peace. Basman Derawi (Gaza/Egypt) and Michal Rubin (Israel/US) write for a true Never again Not in my name, for a child not to have Genocide in his/her dictionary, for living colonization free, occupation free, for no more selective humanity, for justice which is the only road to real peace.
This is a book of searching and finding, through fear and pain, their shared humanity, love of the land, and its people, and decide, in their unique way through poetry, to co-create the yet unfertilized seed of a new reality.
As Rubin writes:
When I hear you say
I am from Gaza
I think I must paint the screams I don't hear
and that there isn't enough love
nor enough red paint
and what color to use
for the silence
between cries
And Derawi responds:
When I hear you say,
I am from Israel
and you unzip your chest,
handing me your heart.
Same hearts, same humanity.
I breathe again, I almost cry.
The poems in this collection are a precious example of a careful and thoughtful paradigm shift, creating a path to a world of justice, trust, caring, love, and safety between enemies.
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