In the spring of 2025, the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, and Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, traveled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza.
In Requiem for Gaza, they use the experience and stories of these families to detail the crucible of the genocide, the loss of homes and communities, the appalling death toll among friends and loved ones, the constant displacement, the terror of indiscriminate killing, the hunger and deprivation, the obliteration of all that was known and familiar, and the struggle to cope with the callous indifference of a world that continues to supply Israel with weapons despite its wholesale destruction of Gaza and mass slaughter.
Hedges’ vivid prose and Sacco’s visceral images complement each other and together paint a portrait of dignity and suffering under genocide.
They are going on tour to discuss this profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, here are their stops:
Portland, OR: Powell’s City of Books on October 11th at 7:00 pm
Seattle, WA: Town Hall Seattle on October 12th at 7:30 pm–buy tickets to the in-person event and/or livestream here (link)
Princeton, NJ: Labyrinth Books on October 14th at 6:00 pm (Chris Hedges only)
Eugene, OR: Comic Arts Festival of Eugene (CAFE) on October 18th at 1:00 pm (Joe Sacco only, in conversation with Jaime Hernandez)
Philadelphia, PA: Arch Street Meeing House on October 18th at 5:00 pm (Chris Hedges only)–pay what you can at the door
Ottawa, ON: Ottawa International Writers Festival on October 25th at 2:30 pm (Chris Hedges only–buy tickets to the in-person event and/or livestream here (link)