At the time, it referred to the catastrophic failure of a war launched to eliminate any possibility of Jewish statehood and, ...

Kattan narrates Palestinian history through inherited memory, presenting the ongoing Nakba as a lived, generational ...

Suleiman Ghawanmeh is tired of talking. For over 10 years, he talked himself hoarse until he realized his words could not ...

A February review in Publishers Weekly has spotlighted Before the Flood by Palestinian journalist and historian Ramzy Baroud, ...

Gaza resident Badryeh Mohareb is old enough to remember what Palestinians call the "Nakba", or catastrophe of 1948. She is no stranger to conflict - but, she says, what she's facing now is worse.

In Gaza, the boundary marking past and present has become indistinct. Nineteen forty-eight is not over—it is unfolding again, and in more violent and destructive ways. Gaza—Every year on May 15, ...

The Wikipedia article on the Nakba, which is Arabic for “catastrophe,” describes the events of Israel’s war for independence in 1948 as being “the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs.” The opening ...

Nakba is the Arabic word for “the catastrophe.” Approximately three-quarters of all Palestinians were violently displaced from their homes in 1948 following the creation of the State of Israel.

A man stands amidst destroyed cars at a scrapyard in the town of Huwara near Nablus in the occupied West Bank on February 27, 2023 after they were torched overnight. Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. When 71 years ...

On a warm evening last week, Leila Giries sat in her California home, took a deep breath and pressed play on a film she says forced her to relive the most traumatic moment of her life. “Farha,” ...