Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Samar Yazbek Review
In early 2024, Samar Yazbek found herself in Doha, where more than 2,500 Palestinian survivors of the genocide in Gaza were living alongside their families and receiving desperately needed medical care. Yazbek is a Syrian writer and…
In early 2024, Samar Yazbek found herself in Doha, where more than 2,500 Palestinian survivors of the genocide in Gaza were living alongside their families and receiving desperately needed medical care. Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist. Forced into exile after joining the uprising against the Assad regime in 2011, she wrote several books collecting the testimonies of those who resisted the regime or who were forced to live through the civil war, including A Woman in the Crossfire and The Crossing. In 2024, seeing the survivors in Doha, Yazbek was immediately transported back to her experiences in Syria: ‘
