‘The Story of Hurry’—a Children’s Book that Brings Gaza to Life
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‘The Story of Hurry’—a Children’s Book that Brings Gaza to Life

In this uncommon book by Emma Williams, Jean Stein and Ibrahim Quraishi, a donkey tries to cheer Gaza’s traumatized children—by becoming a zebra.

 

The book is called The Story of Hurry, and, unlike its sugarcoated peers, it eschews princess fantasies, Elmo tie-ins and beeping garbage trucks in favor of a sweet-and-searing tale of life inside one of the most tattered lands on earth. That this land happens to be the Gaza Strip, a place that barely registers even among grown-up publishers, is all the more astonishing.

For more see: https://www.thenation.com/article/193793/story-hurry-childrens-book-brings-gaza-life#

 

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