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New Village Press has been a trade publisher since 2005, known for books that animate emerging movements in societal transformation that defy standard categorization. These works include stories about collaborative community building and the creative new roles that artists and scholars, citizens and planners, poets and farmers can play in public life.

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If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE

Essays on Conscience and Witness

by Yahia Lababidi

Yahia Lababidi wrote 47 essays between 2023 and 2026 in response to the ongoing devastation in Gaza. His acts of witness are shaped by grief, memory, and a refusal to turn away from human suffering. This is a book of conscience under pressure, written from an Arab American perspective shaped by exile and moral inquiry. It is the work of a poet who could no longer write poems and who feared for his soul if he remained silent. If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE asks what fidelity to truth demands when language itself is under siege. A book about the moral injury of witnessing the eradication of Palestine and what it costs the soul when the conscience will not look away.

Published by New Village Press

Distributed by NYU Press

October 2026

256 pages, 5.50 x 8.50 inches

Cover illustration by Malak Mattar

ISBN: 978-1-61332-304-5

Hardcover price: $30.00

Primary edition: jacketed hardcover

Also available in ebook

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