Special Edition includes heartfelt acknowledgments and appreciation, an extra excerpt, and an expanded gallery of photographs.
All proceeds go to Amal and her family to rebuild their lives in Gaza.
This intimate and poignant memoir in twelve chapters, illustrated with photographs from Amal’s experience, tells the story of a mother’s struggle and hope to protect her children through genocide, and how faith, strength, and the little joys carried her through the atrocities.
Diaries the Screens Never Told is based on the diary entries she kept throughout the war, the memoir begins when it reached Gaza. Amal was twenty-two, a young mother studying optometry. Within weeks she was on the road with her daughters, Sham, five, and Razan, two, running from a genocide that took her home, her sisters, and her husband Mo’men’s health. After a missile wounded Mo’men, it fell to Amal to hold the family together.
This is a mother carrying her children through displacement, famine, and loss. She is exhausted, and she keeps going anyway, because her daughters have no one else. Through it all, her faith holds her steady, and small moments of joy, a shared meal, a laugh, a night of safe sleep, remind them that life is still worth living. She takes it one meal, one night, one more day at a time.
Gaza is all Amal has ever known, a land of olive trees and a people whose resistance is love. She believes it is worth fighting for. Her story is a testament to the sacrifices of a mother who refused to let atrocity define her family.
Special Edition includes heartfelt acknowledgments and appreciation, an extra excerpt, and an expanded gallery of photographs.
All proceeds go to Amal and her family to rebuild their lives in Gaza.
This intimate and poignant memoir in twelve chapters, illustrated with photographs from Amal’s experience, tells the story of a mother’s struggle and hope to protect her children through genocide, and how faith, strength, and the little joys carried her through the atrocities.
Diaries the Screens Never Told is based on the diary entries she kept throughout the war, the memoir begins when it reached Gaza. Amal was twenty-two, a young mother studying optometry. Within weeks she was on the road with her daughters, Sham, five, and Razan, two, running from a genocide that took her home, her sisters, and her husband Mo’men’s health. After a missile wounded Mo’men, it fell to Amal to hold the family together.
This is a mother carrying her children through displacement, famine, and loss. She is exhausted, and she keeps going anyway, because her daughters have no one else. Through it all, her faith holds her steady, and small moments of joy, a shared meal, a laugh, a night of safe sleep, remind them that life is still worth living. She takes it one meal, one night, one more day at a time.
Gaza is all Amal has ever known, a land of olive trees and a people whose resistance is love. She believes it is worth fighting for. Her story is a testament to the sacrifices of a mother who refused to let atrocity define her family.