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

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

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.

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

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, ...

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.

(RNS) — People who reflexively invoke Israel’s right to exist conflate the right of a nation to exist with the right to oppress. (RNS) — The state of Israel wants you to think it’s a democracy. But ...

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 ...

When 71 years ago this month, the creation of the State of Israel led to a mass Palestinian exodus, only about 150,000 Palestinians out of nearly one million who had lived on the territory managed to ...