“In 2015, almost two years after I left Palestine, I started work on my first novel. I had covered the region as a correspondent for four years but apparently there was a lot I hadn’t managed to say. When I sat down to write, Gaza poured out... I started to tell the story of Sara Byrne, an ambitious young reporter, trying to make a name for herself in the 2012 war in Gaza. A dark satire of the war news industry, it felt much closer to the Gaza I knew. But by the time I finished Vulture nearly 10 years later, that Gaza no longer existed. I’ve been looking again to the media to tell me what happened to it, but it can’t.”
Read the full article in hyphen. magazine.
