seaweed and even bark

‘May we have space to navigate our lives from a liberated rest state

the book tells the stories of those devoting their energy

Zahra Motallebi

Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life - Voices from Gaza Julie Westerman seaweed and even barkTranslated by Leri Price In the year following 7 October 2023, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experiences of that day and the months of destruction and displacement that followed. From these encounters comes Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, a selection of twenty six testimonies from ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty five, whose lives have been irrevocably altered by what may one