This is Samir Mansour bookshop, but let me tell you what it means to me. When I was a kid my dream like any child’s dream was to travel the world, but since I was born in Gaza that dream felt impossible. I started reading novels, short stories, books, and I imagined myself travelling through those books. This bookshop changed my life, I used to go there every month with my mother and buy few books and wait so eagerly for the next month so my mum can buy me more. And for me that felt like another ticket to another country. I used to go there and stay for hours browsing which books would be my new companions, and the staff there knew me so well. They would welcome me with so much love and I would sit upstairs reading before my mum comes to pick me up. In my room in Gaza, I still have hundreds of books that I passionately stayed up till 5 in the morning reading. I remember one night my parents came running to my room at 4 am because they heard me crying out loud, I thought I was the only ...