A compilation of found imagery and text
"Refaat Alareer was a poet, professor of literature and public intellectual from Gaza, Palestine, who was assassinated in December 2023 by the Israeli occupation. This book is a collection of the entire instagram account Refaat shared in the decade prior to his death, as well as his poetry from his website.
Organized thematically, it preserves glimpses of his everyday life—family, academia, food, nature, memes, writings by himself and others—along with the other side of daily life in Gaza: surviving under violent occupation. Bringing these images from the digital sphere to paper, lest his online account disappear, is an effort to honor the memory of Refaat Alareer, who stood up for Gaza and told us: ‘If I must die, you must live to tell my story.’”
Preserved texts (captions, poems, an interview) and images by or about Refaat Alareer found online, together they document life in Gaza under impossible circumstances.
Soft cover, 25 x 20 cm, 90 pages, 1st ed(/150), n.p. 2025
ISBN: 978-8-9931860-0-9
