Wednesday 3/26 @ 6:00PM

Labyrinth Books

122 Nassau Street

A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence. With intimate and harrowing portraits of the human consequences of oppression, occupation, and violence experienced in Palestine today, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges issues a call to action urging us to bear witness and engage with the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Hedges wrote the first section of the book when he was in Ramallah in July 2024, and he draws from his experience doing extensive reporting from the Middle East, including Gaza, for the New York Times.

The book includes chapters on: what life is like in Gaza City and Ramallah in the midst of approaching bombs and gunfire; the history of the dispossession of Palestinians of their land in relation to the ideology of Zionism; a portrait of Amr, a 17-year-old high school student who is forced to evacuate his village with his family; and a heartbreaking final chapter called “Letter to the Children of Gaza.”

Chris Hedges was a war correspondent for 2 decades in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, 15 of them with The New York Times, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of fourteen books, including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War and Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. He writes a column every Monday for ScheerPost and has a show, The Chris Hedges Report, on The Real News. He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University and has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and The University of Toronto. He has taught students earning their college degree from Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2010.