Come join us for this event with the editors, Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller discussing their book .
6pm on Wednesday 13th August 2025
Unite The Union building, 110 Blackness Road, Dundee, DD1 5PB
This is Gaza. A place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught.
Daybreak in Gaza is a record of an extraordinary place and people, and of a culture preserved by the people themselves. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gaza’s cultural landscape and the breadth of its history.
Daybreak in Gaza humanises the people dismissed as statistics. It stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction and as a testament to Gaza’s people. Copies of the book will be on sale at this event for the authors to sign.
Mahmoud Muna is a writer, publisher and bookseller from Jerusalem, Palestine. He runs Jerusalem’s celebrated Educational Bookshop and the Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel, both centres of the city’s literary scene. He is active in many cultural initiatives across Palestine and writes regularly on culture and politics, with bylines in the London Review of Books and Jerusalem Quarterly, among others. He recently published the first-ever Arabic edition of the literary magazine Granta and is the co-editor of Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture, published by Saqi Books.
Matthew Teller is an author and journalist. He writes for global media including the BBC, Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent and many others, and he presents and produces documentaries for BBC Radio. His book Nine Quarters of Jerusalem (2022) was a Telegraph Book of the Year, and he co-edited Daybreak in Gaza (2024) with Palestinian friends and colleagues including Mahmoud Muna.