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If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE
Essays on Conscience and Witness
by Yahia Lababidi
Yahia Lababidi wrote 47 essays between 2023 and 2026 in response to the ongoing devastation in Gaza. His acts of witness are shaped by grief, memory, and a refusal to turn away from human suffering. This is a book of conscience under pressure, written from an Arab American perspective shaped by exile and moral inquiry. It is the work of a poet who could no longer write poems and who feared for his soul if he remained silent. If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE asks what fidelity to truth demands when language itself is under siege. A book about the moral injury of witnessing the eradication of Palestine and what it costs the soul when the conscience will not look away.
Published by New Village Press
Distributed by NYU Press
October 2026
256 pages, 5.50 x 8.50 inches
Cover illustration by Malak Mattar
ISBN: 978-1-61332-304-5
Hardcover price: $30.00
Primary edition: jacketed hardcover
Also available in ebook

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