The anthology Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm is among the first English-language books to cover Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attack in southern Israel.
The volume features a number of impressive and well-credentialed contributors, including Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, Harvard Middle East scholar Sara Roy, co-editor of Jadaliyya Mouin Rabbani and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers and Gaza-born journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, among others.
Considering that a book’s publication typically has at least a one-year journey, this book’s release in April 2024 is a testimony to the authors and editors recognizing the importance of the moment, especially as the Israeli response to the 7 October operation constitutes a genocide. The aim of the book, Shlaim writes in the forward, “is to place this war in its proper historical context.” ….more
