In 1948, Syrian historian Constantin Zurayk used the Arabic word Nakba (Catastrophe) to refer to the forced removal of Palestinians from their lands and homes by the newly formed Israeli state (in his August 1948 book, Ma’na al-Nakba or “The Meaning of the Nakba”). A decade ago, in Beirut, I met with Lebanese novelist Elias […]
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