Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Nakba

Gaza: The ceaseless shadow of Nakba

Genocide will always remain a crime that the world prefers to acknowledge in retrospect. An apology, a "never again" pledge, a fact-finding mission, a...

Nakba at 75 – Palestinians’ struggle to get recognition for their ‘catastrophe’

Maha Nassar, University of Arizona On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the...

Farha speaks to the war-stricken Muslim-other

Amidst the rise and normalization of Islamophobia, the Jordanian feature film Farha brings the counter side of the disingenuous story- a breakthrough from a...

Farha: One brutal story of “Nakba” — ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948

An overwhelming portion of the film happens in a confinement: a storeroom inside a Palestinian home in a hillside village. A 14-year-old girl is...

Protests by Palestinian citizens in Israel signal growing sense of a common struggle

Maha Nassar, University of Arizona The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of...

Nakba, Gaza and the unkind world; former Gaza govt spokesperson Isra Al Modallal speaks to Maktoob

Isra Al Modallal's family and daughter are in Gaza, where Israel is showering bomb. On 15 May, the day Palestinians commemorate the brutal ethnic cleansing as a result of installing the state of Israel in Palestinian land, Modallal speaks to Maktoob.