The newly announced exhibit is surprising but long overdue, and represents an act of institutional accountability.
Articles on Nakba
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Anne Irfan’s history explains the complex background to Palestinian resistance in Gaza, allowing those who live there to tell their own stories.
For almost 80 years, Palestinians in Gaza have resisted proposals to resettle elsewhere.
A cultural studies scholar says Netflix’s removal of their ‘Palestinian Stories’ section, along with about 20 films, is more than a simple business decision: it’s instead an act of cultural erasure.
American foreign aid to Israel has long relied on the support of American Jews. But American Jews have never been unified in their support for Israel or about Israel’s role in American Jewish life.
It’s now clear that tensions in academia regarding concerns about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people aren’t limited to campus protests.
Jordan’s foreign policy has landed the kingdom in hot water.
The deep connection of homes in Gaza to Palestinian land, territory and nationhood makes Israel’s destruction of them a genocidal tactic.
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
With the Israel-Palestine conflict continuing, we asked a range of academics to nominate works that can help explain things.
The slogan has been attacked as ‘antisemitic’ and defended as a ‘call for freedom.’ Behind the controversy is decades of usage.
Amid their enduring statelessness and the ongoing risk of ethnic cleansing, Palestinian refugees must be protected under the provisions of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Western stances and comments on civilian deaths in Israel and Palestine highlight the double standard that permeates across western governments and institutions.
Tactics used to censor the teaching of American history in Florida schools bear much in common with those seen in the illiberal democracies of Israel, Turkey, Russia and Poland.
Generations of Palestinian writers and poets have expressed their feelings of grief and loss.
Many in the West are unaware of the displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians in 1947-8
The UN’s resolution to recognize Nakba Day on May 15, to mark the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948, helps to acknowledge past traumas but does the resolution have other implications?
The documentary, Tantura, has raised difficult questions about the foundation of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba.
From discriminatory land-use policies to evictions and demolitions, urban planning has long been weaponised against the Palestinian people
With just 67 words, a British foreign secretary kicked off a hundred years of conflict and displacement.
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Professor, Sociology, Mount Royal University
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Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Kronhill Senior Lecturer in East European Jewish History, Monash University
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Lecturer, History of Ideas, Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies, University of Westminster
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University Research Professor of Education, University of Kentucky
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Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Professor of Development Planning, UCL
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Professor, Political Communication and Arab Media, SOAS, University of London
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Lecturer, Political Science, University of Waterloo
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Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge
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