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:35273@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T193000 DTSTAMP:20251020T182702Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/we-are-not-numbers-amplifying-the-v oices-of-gazas-youth/ SUMMARY:We Are Not Numbers: Amplifying the Voices of Gaza's Youth DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate and time\n\n\n\n\nStarts on Monday\, Novembe r 17 · 6pm EST\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation\n\n\n\nCambridge Publi c Library\n\n449 Broadway Cambridge\, MA 02138\nGet directions\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nGood to know\n\n\n\n\n\nHighlights\n\n\n\n In person\n\n\n\n\ n\n\n\nRefund Policy\n\nNo refunds\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this eve nt\n\nCommunity • State\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Harvard Book Store and the Cam bridge Public Library for a powerful evening of solidarity and storytellin g as acclaimed authors and activists come together to lift up the voices o f Gaza’s youth. Through readings from We Are Not Numbers: Voices of Gaz a’s Youth\, this event amplifies stories too often silenced—of resilie nce\, love\, loss\, and the will to live amid genocide. This event will fe ature opening remarks from the co-editors of We Are Not Numbers\, Pam Ba iley and Ahmed Alanouq\, and readings by Daniel José Older\, Salma Sha wa\, Khury Petersen-Smith\, Autumn Allen\, and George Abraham. Following the readings\, will be a discussion on censorship and repression of Palest inian voices lead by Hannah Moushabeck.\n\nProceeds of the book support  We Are Not Numbers\, a project providing mentorship and a global platform for young Gazan writers. Pam Bailey will sign books after the presentation .\nTicketing\nRSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ti cket to reserve 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 t he night of the event\, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticke t holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend th e event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event.\nAbout We Are Not Numbers\nA teenage girl stares a t her roof\, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student sea rches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world\, hoping he’ ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city\, taking n otes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.\n\nThese are the storie s of young people from Gaza\, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses\, who ke ep fighting to be recognized not as numbers\, but as human beings with hop es\, dreams\, 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\, urg ent and full of heart\, spanning over ten years to the present moment—we gain an unparalleled insight into the past\, as well as the current and n ext generation of Palestinian leaders\, artists\, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.\nPraise for We Are Not Numbers\n “Essential . . . A project that insists on liberation.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates\n\n“A rebellion against the singular story. An insightful\, multi faceted glimpse into the besieged Gaza Strip\, where millions of people co ntinue 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 rea ders into the impossible realities of life under siege in Gaza. The collec tive commitment to doing whatever it takes to produce this extraordinary s ymphony of testimony is evident on every page. This book is a jailbreak— and a miracle.” — 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 brave writers\; I’ve walked the same streets\, felt the same fear\ , and shared the same dreams under Gaza’s skies. These pages carry the t ruth of our struggle and the beauty of our humanity. This is Gaza as it tr uly is\, written by those who live it every day.” — Motaz Azaiza\, awa rd-winning Palestinian photojournalist\n\n“Picking up this book may seem hard because 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. ” — Kamila Shamsie\nBios\nPam Bailey is a freelance journalist and so cial-justice activist. She lived and worked in the Gaza Strip immediately following the 2008/9 Israeli assault. Today\, she is a communications cons ultant and writer/editor for nonprofits such as ImpACT International for H uman Rights Policies. She has also founded More Than Our Crimes\, a nonpro fit initiative focused on assuring second chances for individuals convicte d of violent crimes in the United States. She is based in Washington DC.\n \nAhmed Alnaouq grew up in Gaza where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from al-Azher University. Ahmed was the inspiration for \, and original project manager of\, We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK’s prestigious Chevening scholarship and earned a master’s degree in international journalism from Leeds University. He also serves as advocac y and outreach officer for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Ah med’s writings have been published by the Gulf News\, New Arab\, and o ther websites. He is currently based in London.\n\nDaniel José Older\, a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic\, is the internatio nally best-selling author of many comics and twenty books\, including the Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher\, which was named one of the b est fantasy books of all time by TIME magazine and one of Esquire’s  80 Books Every Person Should Read. He won the International Latino Book Aw ard and has been nominated for numerous others. Find his books and online writing classes here: http://danieljoseolder.net/\n\nSalma Shawa is a Pa lestinian content creator and publishing professional who is originally fr om Gaza. She uses her social media platforms to advocate and educate peopl e about Palestine. You can find her online @salma.shawa_.\n\nKhury Peterse n-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of t he New Internationalism Project at IPS. He researches U.S. empire\, border s\, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the viole nce that the 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. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organ izers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement\, which was signed by over 6\,000 Black activists\, artists\, and scholars.\n\nAutumn Allen  is an educator\, an editor\, an award-winning author\, and a children’s literature specialist. Her debut young adult novel\, All You Have To Do  (Kokila/Penguin\, 2023)\, was a People Magazine must-read for fall 2023\ , a Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2023\, a Black Caucus of the A LA debut honor award winner\, and is long listed for the Massachusetts Boo k Award. Her picture books\, Step On Board: Sculpting a Memorial to Harri et Tubman\, illustrated by Ekua Holmes\, and Answered Prayers\, illustrat ed by Charly Palmer\, are forthcoming from Knopf. Autumn is a senior edito r at Barefoot Books and she teaches literature\, writing and publishing to students of all ages. Autumn grew up in Boston and lives in Massachusetts with her family.\n\nGeorge Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet\, essayist\, critic\, and performance artist. They are the author of  When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket\, 2026) and Birthr ight (Button Poetry\, 2020)\, which won the Arab American Book Award and w as a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna \, and co-editor of Heave Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket\, 2025) which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a grad uate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program\, and teach at Amherst Co llege as a Writer-in-Residence.\n\nHannah Moushabeck is a second-generati on Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a you ng age. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies suc h as Chronicle Books\, The Quarto Group\, and Simon &\; Schuster. She n ow runs Interlink Publishing\, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States\, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: M y Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book A ward and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusett s on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.\nMasking Policy\nMa sks are encouraged but not required for this event.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 025/10/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_1153261873_974051967_1_original.jpg CATEGORIES:Author,author talk,Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,Israeli/Palestine LOCATION:Cambridge Public Library\, 449 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States GEO:42.374147;-71.110722 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=449 Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cambridge Public Lib rary:geo:42.374147,-71.110722 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR