Requiem for Gaza

About the Author

Chris Hedges is the former Pulitzer-prize winning Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times. An Arabic speaker, he spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine, much of that time in Gaza. He is author of sixteen books, including A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine, The New York Times best seller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-wrote with Joe Sacco, as well as War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning based on his two decades as a war correspondent in Central America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He has also taught college courses in the New Jersey prison system through Rutgers University for over a decade. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (Litterarum Humanarum Doctor) in 2009 by Starr King School for the Ministry in Oakland, California. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Joe Sacco is a Maltese-born cartoonist and journalist based in Portland. He is a seminal figure in comics journalism, establishing the form's seriousness and legitimacy in the 1990s with his groundbreaking investigative graphic novel Palestine. He has since become the most prominent figure in the genre he virtually created, and has published numerous investigative works of graphic journalism, including Safe Area Gorazde, Footnotes in Gaza, Paying the Land, and his most recent book, The Once and Future Riot. He is also the co-author with Chris Hedges of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Sacco is the recipient of the American Book Award, multiple Eisner and Harvey awards, and in 2023 was awarded a Doctor of Literature degree (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta.