Dervla Murphy: A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza [2015] paperback ZCHRI 'A great read - whatever

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Dervla Murphy: A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza [2015] paperback ZCHRI 'A great read - whateverOver the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were touched by her genuine, unflinching interest and spoke openly to her about life in their open air prison. What she finds are a people who, far from the story we are so often fed, overwhelmingly long for