What Have You Left Behind?
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What Have You Left Behind?

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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What Have You Left Behind?

About this book

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 350,000 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 militia and those of the Saudi-led coalition, al-Maqtari highlights the disillusionment and anguish felt by those trapped in a war outside of their own making. As difficult to read as it is to put down, this unvarnished chronicle of the conflict serves as a vital reminder of the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines, and offers a searing condemnation of the international community's complicity in the war's continuation.

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Yes, you can access What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra al-Maqtari, Sawad Hussain in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Middle Eastern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Praise
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Map
  5. SOMEWHERE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
  6. BUT IT FELL
  7. REEM’S TINY WINGS
  8. UNDER THE MANGO TREE THEY SLEEP
  9. A STORY THAT MUST BE PUT TO BED
  10. SIX METRES UNDER
  11. WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK, MAMA
  12. WHAT HAPPENED WASN’T FATE AT ALL
  13. DEATH ON THE PIER
  14. THE FISHMONGER’S DITCH
  15. A HOLE FULL OF NIGHTMARES
  16. A BURNT SILVER RING
  17. THEY HAVEN’T LOST A SINGLE THING IN THIS WAR
  18. HALF OF THE SUNKEN BOAT
  19. THIEVES AND RESCUERS
  20. HIS EYE SAW WHAT HAPPENED
  21. A LOCKED ROOM FOR LOSS
  22. DO I COVER MY EARS OR THEIRS?
  23. DEATH GAME
  24. I SAW HER… SHE WAS DROWNING
  25. THE ACHE THAT DOESN’T GO AWAY
  26. MY BROTHER’S SOUL DIDN’T SURVIVE
  27. IT IS US WHO LOST OUR MEN
  28. THE APACHE ISN’T LOOKING FOR FISH
  29. SALLY, WHERE’S YOUR SISTER?
  30. NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO US
  31. YOU WOULD HAVE LOVED MY MOTHER
  32. THEY STOLE MY JOY
  33. DEATH BY DECEPTION
  34. NO LONGER OUR CITY
  35. THIS IS THE APOCALYPSE, NOT WAR
  36. ON THE EDGE OF A CRATER
  37. MY GIRLS, IF ONLY
  38. I WAITED BUT SHE DIDN’T COME
  39. THEY DIDN’T DO A THING FOR MY SON
  40. WHAT ARE SNIPERS MADE OF?
  41. WHAT GOOD IS PATIENCE?
  42. THE PIGEONS NO LONGER COME BY
  43. RUNNING ON THE DAY OF NUQUM
  44. THEY WILL NEVER GET ENOUGH OF OUR BLOOD
  45. I HAVE NO ONE LEFT
  46. THE DOG DOESN’T BARK
  47. ONE OF THEM LET OUT AN ‘AH’
  48. NOT A SINGLE PHOTO SURVIVED
  49. FOR REHAM BADR
  50. A LIST OF VICTIMS, IN BRIEF
  51. Illustrations
  52. About the Authors
  53. About the Book
  54. Copyright