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Maggie Schmitt

Maggie Schmitt - Maggie Schmitt is a freelance researcher and translator based in Madrid.  She is currently working on a book called The Gaza Kitchen with Laila El-Haddad. Learn more at gazakitchens.wordpress.com.

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Eating Under Siege

By Maggie Schmitt

Jul 1 2009, 6:45 AM ET Comment



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Photo by Amir Sadafi


The port of Gaza is home to hundreds of small boats and about 50 larger ones. Each boat represents the livelihood and assets of a whole extended family which relies on fishing now that other employment is unavailable. Many were destroyed when the port was shelled in January.
Maggie Schmitt witnesses what life is like
Eating Under Siege
amid Gaza's fruit trees, family farms, and fish markets.

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