BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:35302@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251117T180000 DTSTAMP:20251022T203113Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/we-are-not-numbers-amplifying-the-v oices-of-gazas-youth-2/ SUMMARY:We Are Not Numbers: Amplifying the Voices of Gaza's Youth DESCRIPTION:CAMBRIDGE\, MA\n\nJoin Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Pub lic Library for a powerful evening of solidarity and storytelling as accla imed authors and activists come together to lift up the voices of Gaza’s youth. Through readings from We Are Not Numbers: Voices of Gaza’s Yout h\, this event amplifies stories too often silenced—of resilience\, love \, loss\, and the will to live amid genocide. This event will feature open ing remarks from the co-editors of We Are Not Numbers\, Pam Bailey and  Ahmed Alanouq\, and readings by Daniel José Older\, Salma Shawa\, Khur y Petersen-Smith\, Autumn Allen\, and George Abraham. Following the readi ngs\, will be a discussion on censorship and repression of Palestinian voi ces lead by Hannah Moushabeck.\n\nProceeds of the book support We Are No t Numbers\, a project providing mentorship and a global platform for young Gazan writers. Pam Bailey will sign books after the presentation.\nTicket ing\nRSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to r eserve a copy of We Are Not Numbers and pick it up at the event.\n\nNote : Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event\, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event w ill be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days foll owing the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot g uarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not atte nd the event.\nAbout We Are Not Numbers\nA teenage girl stares at her roo f\, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world\, hoping he’ll be abl e to visit them one day. Another walks around the city\, taking notes of a ll the buildings she dreams of repairing.\n\nThese are the stories of youn g people from Gaza\, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses\, who keep fighti ng to be recognized not as numbers\, but as human beings with hopes\, drea ms\, and lives worth living.\n\nWe Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection—vital\, urgent and f ull of heart\, spanning over ten years to the present moment—we gain an unparalleled insight into the past\, as well as the current and next gener ation of Palestinian leaders\, artists\, scientists and scholars and imagi ne where we might go from here.\nPraise for We Are Not Numbers\n“Essent ial . . . A project that insists on liberation.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates\n\ n“A rebellion against the singular story. An insightful\, multifaceted g limpse into the besieged Gaza Strip\, where millions of people continue to confront a genocide waged by an Israeli regime.” — Mohammed el-Kurd\n \n“With lovingly crafted words and stories\, the authors in We Are Not Numbers open portals in Israel’s apartheid wall\, inviting readers into the impossible realities of life under siege in Gaza. The collective comm itment to doing whatever it takes to produce this extraordinary symphony o f testimony is evident on every page. This book is a jailbreak—and a mir acle.” — Naomi Klein\n\n“We Are Not Numbers is not just a book—it ’s my life\, their life\, and our shared story. I know some of these bra ve writers\; I’ve walked the same streets\, felt the same fear\, and sha red the same dreams under Gaza’s skies. These pages carry the truth of o ur struggle and the beauty of our humanity. This is Gaza as it truly is\, written by those who live it every day.” — Motaz Azaiza\, award-winnin g Palestinian photojournalist\n\n“Picking up this book may seem hard bec ause of the subject matter\; putting it down is even harder. The voices of Gaza’s young writers are so moving and varied and astonishing. You’ll carry We Are Not Numbers in your heart for a very long time.” — Kam ila Shamsie\nBios\nPam Bailey is a freelance journalist and social-justic e activist. She lived and worked in the Gaza Strip immediately following t he 2008/9 Israeli assault. Today\, she is a communications consultant and writer/editor for nonprofits such as ImpACT International for Human Rights Policies. She has also founded More Than Our Crimes\, a nonprofit initiat ive focused on assuring second chances for individuals convicted of violen t crimes in the United States. She is based in Washington DC.\n\nAhmed Aln aouq grew up in Gaza where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English Lit erature from al-Azher University. Ahmed was the inspiration for\, and orig inal project manager of\, We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK’s pres tigious Chevening scholarship and earned a master’s degree in internatio nal journalism from Leeds University. He also serves as advocacy and outre ach officer for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Ahmed’s wri tings have been published by the Gulf News\, New Arab\, and other websit es. He is currently based in London.\n\nDaniel José Older\, a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic\, is the internationally best- selling author of many comics and twenty books\, including the Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher\, which was named one of the best fantasy books of all time by TIME magazine and one of Esquire’s 80 Books Ev ery Person Should Read. He won the International Latino Book Award and has been nominated for numerous others. Find his books and online writing cla sses here: http://danieljoseolder.net/\n\nSalma Shawa is a Palestinian c ontent creator and publishing professional who is originally from Gaza. Sh e uses her social media platforms to advocate and educate people about Pal estine. You can find her online @salma.shawa_.\n\nKhury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Inte rnationalism Project at IPS. He researches U.S. empire\, borders\, and mig ration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that th e U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific\, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts\, after completing a dissertation on U.S. milit ary bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of th e 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement\, which was signed by over 6\, 000 Black activists\, artists\, and scholars.\n\nAutumn Allen is an educa tor\, an editor\, an award-winning author\, and a children’s literature specialist. Her debut young adult novel\, All You Have To Do (Kokila/Pen guin\, 2023)\, was a People Magazine must-read for fall 2023\, a Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2023\, a Black Caucus of the ALA debut ho nor award winner\, and is long listed for the Massachusetts Book Award. He r picture books\, Step On Board: Sculpting a Memorial to Harriet Tubman\, illustrated by Ekua Holmes\, and Answered Prayers\, illustrated by Charl y Palmer\, are forthcoming from Knopf. Autumn is a senior editor at Barefo ot Books and she teaches literature\, writing and publishing to students o f all ages. Autumn grew up in Boston and lives in Massachusetts with her f amily.\n\nGeorge Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet\, ess ayist\, critic\, and performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket\, 2026) and Birthright (Butto n Poetry\, 2020)\, which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna\, and co-e ditor of Heave Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket\, 2025) whic h was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Nor thwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program\, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.\n\nHannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestin ian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishe rs and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a young age. Han nah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chroni cle Books\, The Quarto Group\, and Simon &\; Schuster. She now runs Int erlink Publishing\, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United Sta tes\, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dr eams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and Th e Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts on the ho melands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.\nMasking Policy\nMasks are enc ouraged but not required for this event. 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