Overview

Love and Desire in the Promised Land collects a dozen interviews with real-life citizens of Israel and Gaza navigating messy boundaries in their homes and bedrooms against a background of geopolitical violence. Collecting interviews conducted before the October 7 attack unleashed a new wave of bloody conflict, the book introduces fascinating individuals and couples who speak frankly about the transgressions that define their experiences with intimacy. The portrayals represent a diverse population, including an interfaith celebrity power couple, an Orthodox gynecologist, a young gay Muslim, a Palestinian American feminist, a Ukrainian-Israeli artist, and a Palestinian lesbian in a relationship with an Israeli soldier. Through these candid conversations, recorded by Parent-Rachdi and illustrated with a warm touch by Deloupy, the authors humanize the people living in Israel and Gaza. As conflict wages around them, these ordinary citizens struggle with their all-too-human urges and desires that drive them to cross borders and boundaries in the name of love and sex.

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Like skilled seducers, the authors do not rush. They draw the reader in gradually, until their message finally lands with full force.-- ""Haaretz""

A fascinating record of human persistence in the midst of turmoil.-- ""Kirkus"" Like skilled seducers, the authors do not rush. They draw the reader in gradually, until their message finally lands with full force.-- ""Haaretz""

Author Information

Salomé Parent-Rachdi is a freelance journalist based in Paris. She was a correspondent in Israel and the Palestinian Territories from 2017 to 2020. She works for the written press and produces podcasts and TV documentaries. Deloupy is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts d'Angoulême, having studied the graphic novel. He works as a freelance illustrator for advertising and has been publishing for children since 2002. He took part in Marjane Satrapi's collective work Femme, vie, liberté (L'Iconoclaste 2023). Jenna Allen is a freelance translator based in Colorado.

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