Eyes on Gaza: Witnessing Annihilation

A powerful and impassioned collection of essays on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, written in real time during the annihilation by a leading scholar of Islamophobia.

All the world’s eyes are now on Gaza and Palestine. Arab and Muslim-American law scholar and author Khaled A. Beydoun shares his expertise and his perspective on the conflict in essays he wrote during the year following October 2023, accompanied by over sixty pieces of art created by Palestinian political cartoonist, Mohammad Sabaaneh during the same time period.

Since October of 2023, the world has been watching as a horrific siege has been waged in Gaza. A devastating bombing campaign carried out by the Israeli military in response to a Hamas attack on Israeli civilians. We have witnessed the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, and our hearts are breaking. Eyes on Gaza is Khaled A. Beydoun’s attempt to process what we have been seeing.

Beydoun opens our eyes to the historic events and the political motivations which impact the decision making of the leaders involved, as he shares his own story and his father’s story as Arab Muslims in America. He offers his expert perspective on events as they have unfolded. This book combines personal narrative, contemporary history, and thoughtful reporting to shine a light on the horror in Palestine today.

Khaled A. Beydoun is a leading voice on Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim identity, and he is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on Islamophobia globally. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; he also serves as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Western Cape Desmond Tutu Center for Religion and Social Justice (Cape Town, South Africa). He is the author of the acclaimed books American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims, which are considered foundational works in the study of Islamophobia.

Mohammad Sabaanehis a Palestinian cartoonist. He is the principal political cartoonist for the Palestinian Authority’s daily newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida. Sabaaneh is a Middle East representative for the Cartoonists Rights Network International and teaches art at the Arab American University of Palestine. His graphic novel Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, which tells the autobiographical story of his time as a political prisoner in Israel, received the Palestine Book Award. He currently lives in Ramallah, in the West Bank.