How does war affect children? How can education bring healing?

What is life really like in the disparaged Gaza Strip? Barber’s award winning No Way But Forward takes you there via a set of deeply human accounts of three ordinary young Palestinian men over the past thirty years, including the year following October 7, 2023. Their lives have been riddled with oppressive military constraint, violence, humiliation, and loss. Yet along with their parents, wives, and children, they have persevered in making an honorable life for themselves. These narratives are gripping, instructive, inspiring, tragic, and universally relevant as tales of survival, endurance, and hope.

Meet author Brian K. Barber Sunday, May 17, 2026 4:00-5:30. Eling’s Park, Godric Grove. 1298 Las Positas Rd, Santa Barbara

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Tuesday, May 19, 2026. 5:30 PM. Tecolote Book Store. 1470 E Valley Rd #5. (Books available for purchase)