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On Gaza and the Historiography of Palestine
The word ‘Gaza’ arouses passions and emotions whenever it is uttered. In this small territory of 360 square kilometres, wedged between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, more than 1.6 million...
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The First World War in Gaza and the Battle for Palestine
The oasis of Gaza—the last outpost before the Sinai desert—has for thousands of years been a strategic objective for conquerors of all kinds. Any Middle Eastern empire had to control Gaza in order to...
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The Gaza Trap: Why Al-Baghdadi May Yet Thank Netanyahu
One person has been enjoying every minute of this summer’s fifty-day war on Gaza. He was known formerly as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, until he changed his name to Caliph Ibrahim. His self-proclaimed...
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Last summer, a Palestinian friend drove me north of the West Bank city of Jenin, up to the ‘security’ wall, with its familiar landscape of watchtowers, barbed wire and concrete blocks. Twenty years...
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A leading Arab scholar considers settler colonialism, occupation and nationhood, powerfully arguing for a justice-based approach to the ongoing conflict. The post Palestine appeared first on HURST.
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A moving exploration of belonging in a contested homeland, from a Palestinian writer and citizen of Israel. The post Stranger in My Own Land appeared first on HURST.
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