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Graduating in Gaza

Graduating in Gaza

Hello world! This is Aya Iyad Salama, a 21 years old, half Palestinian half Algerian girl, based her whole life in the largest open air prison (Gaza). This year was supposed to be my graduation year from university, as I am studying English translation in Al Azhar...

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Peoples, nations, states and genocides

Peoples, nations, states and genocides

This discussion on genocide in the age of the nation state was first published in Planet, the Welsh Internationalist in March 2015. It is just as relevant today. This year’s centenary of the Armenian Genocide, and seventieth anniversary of liberation of the Nazi death...

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A Family in War

A Family in War

A Family in War, Holocaust and Palestinian Nakba through a Century of Letters Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth  20 Ebrill 2020  18:30 National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth  20 April 2020  18:30 Escaping Germany Four generations of one...

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Christians and Israel

Christians and Israel

"Outspoken and memorable" In February 2017, Rebecca Ruth Gould, a lecturer at Bristol University was condemned for 'one of the worst cases of holocaust denial' by a former Conservative MP, Eric Pickles. When he left the Commons for the Lords, Theresa May appointed...

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Readers respond to Christians and Israel

Readers respond to Christians and Israel

"poisoning the whole of Western political discourse" Christians and Israel tells a strong story and has received an equally strong welcome (find the article here). Of many comments, here are four from contrasting backgrounds, informed by Christianity, Judaism and...

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