Book of Wills

“In Gaza, where the world wavers between silence and forgetting, the written word becomes a final sanctuary – a fragile, luminous act of survival,” Reem Ghanayem writes in the Editor’s Note to the bilingual edition of Book of Wills (Akoya Publishing, 2026). Both erasure and preservation are recorded in this collection of brief writings from Gaza during the genocide. As the writers in this anthology address various people, including the readers themselves, there is no escaping the importance of language.  “Language is a feeble tool,” Alberto Manguel writes in the foreword. “And yet, despite the impossibility of finding language adequate to address a victim’s suffering, when confronted with that suffering, our human condition impels us to speak.”  The book opens […]