Imagine living in a world in which a phone call from a stranger may announce the bombing of your home, the destruction of your neighborhood, and the deaths of your loved ones. Imagine making a living from this destruction, by weaving shrouds for the bodies of those whom the bombs flying overhead will soon kill. […]
Rebecca Ruth Gould
REBECCA RUTH GOULD is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics at the SOAS University of London. She is the author of Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2023), The Persian Prison Poem (Edinburgh UP, 2021), and Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale UP, 2016) as well as Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine: A Strategic Perspective (International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Research Monograph Series, 2023). She is currently working on famine and food security in the context of the Gaza genocide, as well as on a family history of the genocide with The Lighthouse Collective in Gaza.
