Tuesday, April 29th | 18:00
Location: The Palestinian Museum

The Palestinian Museum and the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem invite you to join us for the launch of Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture, a remarkable collection that illuminates the humanity and creativity of Gaza — a land now devastated, its people displaced and mourning profound losses. Through vivid vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers, and teachers across generations, this book offers powerful stories of love, life, loss, and survival.

The event will feature readings and discussion with the book's editors:

Mahmoud Muna is a writer, publisher, and bookseller from Jerusalem, Palestine. He manages Jerusalem’s celebrated Educational Bookshop and the Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel, both vibrant hubs of the city’s literary life. Muna writes regularly on culture and politics, with articles appearing in publications such as the London Review of Books and Jerusalem Quarterly. He recently published the first-ever Arabic edition of Granta magazine.

Matthew Teller is a UK-based author and broadcaster writing on place and culture, with a special focus on Palestine and the wider Middle East. His 2022 book Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City was a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Teller produces and presents documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and World Service, and reports for BBC Radio's 'From Our Own Correspondent'. His journalism is published by the BBC, Guardian, Independent, Times and Financial Times, among others. He is the author of Quite Alone: Journalism from the Middle East 2008-2019 and several travel guides, including the Rough Guide to Jordan.