Comments about the book

"...a model for photojournalists and documentary workers who wish to forge an integrated relationship between images and words to communicate complicated elements of social and political experience."
- Dr. Charles Suchar, former President, International Visual Sociology Association, DePaul University

"...a writer and photographer of great integrity, reminiscent of James Agee and Walker Evans in their classic collaboration on the Depression-era American South Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
- James Napoli, Professor of Journalism, American University in Cairo

"This is our untold history ... everything I have lived and felt but could never write."
- Dr. Mafuz 'Uthman, psychologist, Gaza

"Doughty compellingly relates human interest stories."
- Publisher's Weekly

"...sets a precedent as the first to use documentary photographs as questions on how the subjects perceive their life."
- The Beirut Times, Los Angeles

"This is the best work on Palestinian life under Israeli occupation that I have read."
- Dr. Walid Khalidi, founder, Institute for Palestine Studies