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Requiem for Gaza
  • Published: 6 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781787336780
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $60.00
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Requiem for Gaza

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A profound and unflinching work of investigative journalism that presents the testimony of displaced Palestinians who are living through genocide, from the acclaimed author of Palestine

'In Requiem for Gaza, testimony meets truth's arrow' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

A profound and unflinching work of investigative journalism that presents the testimony of displaced Palestinians who are living through genocide, from the acclaimed author of Palestine

In the spring of 2025, the comics journalist Joe Sacco and reporter Chris Hedges travelled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza. In Requiem for Gaza, their experiences and stories detail the crucible of the genocide, its horror, displacement and obliteration.

This book is their effort to combat erasure and defy an indifferent world, to pay homage to the villages, refugee camps and cities that have been destroyed, to preserve stories of resilience, courage and self-sacrifice in the face of the appalling death toll, hunger and deprivation, to mourn the extermination of families and loved ones.

Combining Sacco’s masterful comics-journalism and prose by Hedges, Requiem for Gaza is an urgent, unmissable work of true clarity that preserves a vanished place and asks us not to look away from its people in their struggle for liberation.


Praise for Palestine by Joe Sacco

'With the exception of one or two novelists and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco' Edward Said

'Groundbreaking... a masterpiece of the form' Guardian

'Utterly compelling, and as affecting as the work of any war photographer or poet' Varsity

'Palestine gave us something radically new' TIME Magazine
  • Published: 6 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781787336780
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $60.00
Categories:

About the authors

Chris Hedges

CHRIS HEDGES is the 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 the Palestinians, much of that time in Gaza. Author of 14 books, his most recent are The Greatest Evil Is War and A Genocide Foretold, both published by Seven Stories Press. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has also taught for over a decade in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system. He holds a B.A. from Colgate University in English Literature and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
portrait photo of Chris Hedges

Praise for Requiem for Gaza

This bold work is a must-buy

Booklist, Starred Review

A book that captures, in painful detail, the terrors being visited on Gaza

Kirkus

Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco travelled to Cairo to record the stories of Palestinians who had managed to leave Gaza. One of them says: 'We are not heroes. We are human beings.' The people of Gaza tend to be seen as terrorists, statistics, online viewing, or symbols of heroic endurance. Hedges' narrative and Sacco's cartoons, while evoking and mourning a unique culture now destroyed, bring the reader as close as possible, in harrowingly graphic detail, to the reality of human struggle under displacement and genocide

Norman Finkelstein and Deborah Maccoby

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

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