Between the millstones: Gaza and its story
Tracing the history of the Gaza region
A world convulsed by Russian aggression against Ukraine and the world order was shaken on October 7, 2023 by the unprecedentedly brutal aggression of Palestinian Islamists against Israel. A new war has broken out, the terrible weight of which has fallen mainly on Gaza and its two and a quarter million inhabitants. The most devastating of the Arab-Israeli conflicts devastated a small area of the southern Levant. Jakub Szántó, a well-known Middle Eastern reporter and bestselling author, traces its history. In a coastal area smaller than Prague, it reveals the roots of the diverse cultural mix that has emerged here among the millstones of ancient civilizations, newer empires and recent history over the last millennia. Through a wealth of personal experience in times of peace and war, and above all through dozens of personal connections, it presents a portrait of a society that has become renowned for its unique colour, resilience and cohesion. At a time of intense social debate, the book offers an unbiased and informed reporting perspective.
Jakub Szántó
He has worked as a television reporter since 1999. He originally started at TV Nova, but in 2006 he moved to Czech Television. Between 2013 and 2018, he served as its first permanent Middle East correspondent, which has been the focus of his career. He stayed at the news post with his wife, journalist and successful TV scriptwriter Lenka Szántó, and sons Eliáš and Benjamin. He is the recipient of the 2014 Journalism Award for his coverage of the Maidan revolution in Ukraine and, since 2017, the most prestigious journalism award, the Peroutka Prize. In 2019, he received the Magnesia Litera Readers' Prize for his literary debut Behind the Curtain of War (Argo, 2018), which describes his experiences of wars, coups and revolutions. In 2020 he published another successful book, From Izrastina with Love (Argo, 2020), and three years later he co-authored a unique publication Putin's War (Argo, 2023), which chronicles the first year of the war in Ukraine through the eyes of Czech Television reporters. He studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and Modern History at the Central European University in Budapest. He completed his studies with a doctorate in modern history at Charles University.
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