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Items by William Parry
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Rashid Khalidi on the past and future of Palestine
The terms “century” and “one hundred years”, often interchangeable, shared a strange coincidence on 28 January, when the eminent Palestinian-American academic Professor Rashid Khalidi published his latest book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. As it was hitting the bookshelves, US President…
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Gaza is the ‘quintessential’ eponymous movie
“There are people living with so much misery [in Gaza], they no longer even realise the extent of their suffering.” So says Ahmed, a 40-something taxi driver describing what he witnesses every day on the streets of Gaza, as the camera films people in an impoverished market. To the outsider…