What have you left behind?
al-Maqtari, Bushra2022
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In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni civil war, which has killed over 200,000 people according to the UN. Inspired by the work of Svetlana Alexievich, she spent two years visiting different parts of the country, putting her life at risk by speaking with her compatriots, and gathered over 400 testimonies, a selection of which appear in 'What Have You Left Behind?'. Purposefully alternating between accounts from the victims of the Houthi rebels and those of the Saudi-led coalition, al-Maqtari highlights the disillusionment and anguish felt by civilians trapped in a war outside of their own making.
Main title:
What have you left behind? / Bushra al-Maqtari ; translated by Sawad Hussain.
Author:
al-Maqtari, Bushra, authorHussain, Sawad, translator
Imprint:
London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.
Collation:
200 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9781804270011 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishArabic
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BRN:
2308030