I Shall Not Hate, Izzeldin Abuelaish
I Shall Not Hate, Izzeldin Abuelaish
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I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

Author: Izzeldin Abuelaish

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/19/2011

Synopsis

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish—now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"—captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece.

By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Palestinian doctor with a degree from Harvard who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and "who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians" (The New York Times), Abuelaish has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life—as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line; as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East; and, most recently, as the father whose daughters were killed by Israeli soldiers. His response to this tragedy made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be "the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis."

About Izzeldin Abuelaish

Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, is a Palestinian physician and infertility expert who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, then received a diploma from the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of London. He completed a residency in the same discipline at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel, followed by a subspecialty in fetal medicine in Italy and Belgium. He then undertook a masters in public health at Harvard University. Before his three daughters were killed in January 2009, Dr. Abuelaish worked as a senior researcher at the Gertner Institute at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. He now lives with his family in Toronto, where he is an associate professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 22, 2024

Some mixed feelings about this book but giving it four stars from a place of good will. The positives: I thought Izzeldin Abuelaish did a great job of writing about the devastation he and his family experienced at the hands of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. More specifically, three of his daug......more

Goodreads review by Cat on May 04, 2013

Be warned, don't read this book in public. In spite of knowing what was coming I was unable to stop tearing up, or just outright crying. In fact, I had to take breaks in order to pull myself together. The book didn't grip me from the beginning but as I followed Izzeldin's story I became more and mor......more

Goodreads review by Karen.s on August 01, 2012

I stayed up till 3:30 am reading this book, tears soaking my pillow. I was watching live on Israeli tv when he was interviewed as half his family was wiped out in an accidental mistargeting of a missile from an Israeli tank in the Gaza war of 2008-2009. It was blood-curdling and something I won't fo......more

Goodreads review by Zak on February 15, 2018

From a literary perspective, I would rate this autobiography a 3.5 but this man is so remarkable and his message so important that I'm going to give it 5.0* anyway. I really hope he will get to see the fruits of his patience, perseverance, love and forgiveness during his lifetime.......more

Goodreads review by Raheleh on June 26, 2018

I am glad that I had a chance to read this book, but honestly, I did not like the author and his attitudes. I found him too selfish, a bit unreliable, and politically ignorant and even maybe too rational, and unfortunately, this rationality highly affected his judgments and opinions. I think he coul......more

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