Hurriya Publications did not begin as a business plan. It began as an act of witness.

When Salah Akram — a Palestinian survivor of the ongoing genocide in Gaza — completed his memoir, Between Life and Death in Gaza, he needed more than a publisher. He needed a platform that understood what was at stake: that the economic rights to the story of survival should never be surrendered to the institutions that failed to prevent the catastrophe in the first place.

Edward Tivrusky, founder and Editor-in-Chief of UnTelevised Media — an independent journalist and activist who has covered Palestine and fought for the cause for over eighteen years — answered that call. Together, they built something different.

Half of this company has its roots in Gaza. That is not background information — it is the foundation.

Traditional publishers and storefronts routinely take cuts that leave authors with a fraction of the value their work generates. Hurriya was built to invert that. We are a far-left independent publisher and bookseller, and our economics reflect our politics.

We return significantly more revenue to our authors than any traditional publishing house — and we use sliding-scale revenue adjustments based on socio-economic context, because we understand that not all authors start from the same place. A writer surviving genocide should not be negotiating from a position of desperation. We remove that leverage from the table entirely.

We run grassroots campaigns to grow the reach and discovery of our authors' works — because a great book that no one can find is not a published book, it is a buried one.

Hurriya Publications launched with one book and one mission. We are building it to hold many more. We are actively seeking independent authors — particularly those whose stories are underrepresented, whose economics are precarious, and whose voices deserve a global audience without compromise or condition.

We are not interested in authors who fit the market. We are interested in authors who have something true to say.