As a 27-year-old English literature graduate and English teacher from Gaza, I have always been passionate about teaching. I enjoy helping my students learn to speak English by reciting stories aloud. I connect with them through English, so I collected every English-language book my hands could reach. Before October 7, 2023, during my fourth year in university, I used to visit a bookshop in…
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I understand it’s not exactly the point of the piece. But “studying dystopian fiction as preparation for actual genocide”?
Anyone who claims reading a book about human experiences can substitute for those experiences is either woefully naive or has some clinically-relevant hyper-empathy. Let alone something so outside the scope of normal human experience, like genocide.
