When Home Becomes a Tent: Gaza's Journey of Evacuation, Starvation, and Survival (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798266405936)

When Home Becomes a Tent is the haunting yet deeply human second book by 18-year-old Gaza-born photographer Salem Medhat Alaydi. Living under siege since the destruction of his family home in 2023, Salem has carried with him only a tent for shelter and his phone camera as a witness. From Al Rasheed Street's mass evacuations in September 2025 to the everyday struggle of cooking over firewood and surviving on little, his photographs capture both the unbearable and the unbreakable.
This book is not simply about ruins. It is about people-families carrying mattresses on broken carts, children clutching toys through bombardment, and mothers weaving resilience into every act of survival. Through his lens, Salem preserves fragments of life that the world too often overlooks: grief and hunger, yes, but also love, laughter, and the refusal to give up.
Like his debut, Shadows of Gaza: Stories I Couldn't Let Die, this new collection is testimony and resistance. It asks readers to bear witness to the genocide unfolding in Gaza, to remember that silence is complicity, and to see Gaza not as numbers, but as human lives insisting on survival.

Author: Salem Medhat Alaydi
ISBN-13: 9798266405936
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2025
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.48d