Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation publishing has launched the Arabic edition of Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate.The story is written by the London University and Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and “who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.” Abuelaish is an infertility specialist living in Gaza but working in Israel, and has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians in his capacity as a doctor but also as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East. During the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip, on January 16, 2009 Abuelaish witnessed the death of his three daughters by shell fire. His response to this tragedy, broadcast live on Israeli TV moments after the attack, won him humanitarian awards around the world including a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Izzeldin Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other,” explained a spokesperson, adding “Abuelaish is an inspirational speaker, a tireless peace campaigner and an advocate of woman’s rights in the Middle East.”President Jimmy Carter said of the work: “In this book, Dr Abuelaish has expressed a remarkable commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation that describes the foundation for a permanent peace in the Holy Land.”Israeli author David Grossman commented: “I met Dr Abuelaish just a few days after the loss of his three daughters . . . It is so rare, I thought, in this debilitating and devastating area we inhabit, to meet a person like him, a man who despite his own losses continues his belief in humanity and its potential for good, despite all”Author Amin Maalouf noted: “True nobility in our times belongs to those men and women who know how to rise above their pain to forgive the unforgivable. We live in a time of bewilderment, when too many people are blinded by their own suffering, by their own tragedy, and are indifferent to the suffering of others. It takes courage to refuse to hate, to refrain from advocating revenge. This book makes us meditate on the ferocity of the world, but equally it lets us glimpse what is most precious in humanity: the trembling flame of hope.”