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• I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey

  Review by Carolyn Cooper

  How can we associate mysticism with the tragedy and violence in the Middle East that we see on our screens and read and hear about every day? I make this connection because the actions of the Gazan doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish illustrate his capacity to live free of stereotypes, to refuse to let indignity and hardship, including the Israeli army's destruction of his neighbourhood when he was 15, persuade him to make wholesale judgments about groups of people. He is able to see people on "the other side" as human beings to respect and work with and with whom to build a better future.