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001 2009028433
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020 $a9780805073478 (alk. paper)
020 $a0805073477 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn317928906
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050 00 $aDS119.7$b.S29 2009
082 00 $a956.04$222
100 1 $aSacco, Joe.
245 10 $aFootnotes in Gaza /$cJoe Sacco.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c2009.
300 $axi, 418 p. :$bchiefly ill. ;$c28 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this bitterest of conflicts. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah-- cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake-- reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy" -- from publisher's web site.
650 0 $aArab-Israeli conflict$y1948-1967$vComic books, strips, etc.
651 0 $aEgypt$xHistory$yIntervention, 1956$vComic books, strips, etc.
651 0 $aRafaḥ$xHistory$y20th century$vComic books, strips, etc.
651 0 $aKhān Yūnus$xHistory$y20th century$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aViolence$zGaza Strip$zRafaḥ$xHistory$y20th century$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aMassacres$zGaza Strip$zKhān Yūnus$xHistory$y20th century$vComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aArab-Israeli conflict$y1948-1967$vPersonal narratives, Palestinian.
651 0 $aEgypt$xHistory$yIntervention, 1956$vPersonal narratives, Palestinian.
650 0 $aInterviews$zGaza Strip$zRafaḥ.
650 0 $aInterviews$zGaza Strip$zKhān Yūnus.
655 0 $aGraphic novels.
655 0 $aGraphic novels$zUnited States.