Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
268 kr
Kommande
From Gaza to the White House, she carried the stories of people the world tried to forget.Raised in Palestine, Nadia Bilbassy grew up in a place where beauty and hardship existed side by side—where family, memory, and resilience were woven into daily life, even as conflict pressed in from all directions. She learned early that people are always more than the circumstances surrounding them, and that outlook shaped everything that followed. Her life takes her on paths of love and tragedy that she couldn’t have imagined, but she still makes a choice: she will not be defined by grief, but will instead keep moving forward, carrying both sorrow and joy at once.As a foreign correspondent, she builds a life on the front lines of global conflict, reporting from Africa and Southeast Asia while raising her children in the margins of instability. Her days are filled with the stories of war—rebel leaders, displaced families, lives upended by forces beyond their control—while her nights are grounded in the rituals of motherhood. She refuses to see anyone as a headline. Instead, she searches for the humanity in every story, recognizing in others the same love, fear, and longing that anchor her own life. Even in the most fractured places, she finds connection. When her journey takes her from war zones to the White House briefing room, she brings those stories with her.This intensely personal memoir is set against the backdrop of some of the most consequential events of our time. At its heart it is a story of choosing joy in the face of unimaginable loss, refusing to let the world harden you, and engaging in the quiet, radical act of truly seeing people—fully, honestly, and with compassion—even when the world would rather look away.