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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges presents on his profound and elegiac work of investi
 gative journalism\, a collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Oct 14th 2026 Events @ Labyrinth Books Wed 10/14 @ 6:00PM Lab
 yrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street Chris Hedges presents on his profound a
 nd elegiac work of investigative journalism\, a collaboration with carto
 onist Joe Sacco presenting the testimony of displaced Palestinians who l
 ived through the genocide. In the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacc
 o\, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza\, and Chris Hedges\, the f
 ormer Middle East Bureau Chief for T he New York Times\, traveled to Cai
 ro where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left 
 Gaza. In Requiem for Gaza\, they use the experience and stories of these
  families to detail the crucible of the genocide\, the loss of homes and
  communities\, the appalling death toll among friends and loved ones\, t
 he constant displacement\, the terror of indiscriminate killing\, the hu
 nger and deprivation\, the obliteration of all that was known and famili
 ar\, and the struggle to cope with the callous indifference of a world t
 hat continues to supply Israel with weapons despite its wholesale destru
 ction of Gaza and mass slaughter. Requiem for Gaza\, like New York Times
  bestseller Days of Destruction\, Days of Revolt\, combines comics and s
 ingle images drawn by Sacco within the narrative written by Hedges. Hedg
 es' vivid prose and Sacco's visceral images complement each other and to
 gether paint a portrait of dignity and suffering under genocide. The col
 lective power of the individual stories that chronicle the first day of 
 the genocide\, the forced evacuation of homes\, the targeted assassinati
 ons\, the false hopes engendered by ceasefires\, the dislocation and ali
 enation of exile\, the brutal killing and hasty burial of family members
 \, and the humiliation of living under tarps without clean food and wate
 r bring every aspect of the genocide to life. Set against this horror ar
 e stories of self-sacrifice and compassion that show how Palestinians no
 t only clung to their humanity\, but morally triumphed over their killer
 s. Chris Hedges is the former Pulitzer Prize-winning Middle East Bureau 
 Chief for The New York Times. An Arabic speaker\, he spent seven years c
 overing the conflict between Israel and Palestine\, much of that time in
  Gaza. He is author of sixteen books\, including A Genocide Foretold: Re
 porting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine\, The New York 
 Times best seller Days of Destruction\, Days of Revolt\, which he co-wro
 te with Joe Sacco\, as well as War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning base
 d on his two decades as a war correspondent in Central America\, Africa\
 , the Middle East and the Balkans. He has taught at Columbia University\
 , New York University\, Princeton University and the University of Toron
 to. He has also taught college courses in the New Jersey prison system t
 hrough Rutgers University for over a decade. He holds a B.A. in English 
 Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard
  University. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He was awarded a D
 octor of Humane Letters (Litterarum Humanarum Doctor) in 2009 by Starr K
 ing School for the Ministry in Oakland\, California. This event is co-sp
 onsored by Fantagraphics\, Princeton University's Palestinian Studies Co
 lloquium\, and Labyrinth Books.\n\nMore info: https://www.labyrinthbooks
 .com/events/2026/hedges\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/9bbe9ae3-41
 85-45db-b4d4-b0071a1fa663
LOCATION:Bridges Book Center\, 1480 Main Street\, Rahway\, NJ 07065
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/9bbe9ae3-4185-45db-b4d4-b0071a1fa66
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