Gila Svirsky has headed some of the foremost peace and human rights organisations in Israel, including the New Israel Fund and B’Tselem: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. She co-founded the Coalition of Women for Peace and stood on the Jerusalem vigil of Women in Black for 24 years. Svirsky’s political writings have been widely published. In 2002, she was awarded the Hermann Kesten Prize by PEN Germany, jointly with the Palestinian writer Sumaya Farhat Nasser, for their ongoing literary efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. For more information, see www.gilasvirsky.com.
Waking Up in Africa
“Today was the most wonderful day of my life,” he says. “Today, my life stopped being hard.” That’s it. I hang up and cry. When Gila Svirsky moves to Uganda to follow her wife’s new job, she is drawn into the lives of a group of mostly parentless teens—hungry to stay in school, desper...
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