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Benjamin Ladraa to Beirut Today: The World Moves With Pressure

His #WalktoPalestine campaign was a move to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration that legitimised the creation of the Israeli state, in turn leading to Nakba or “catastrophy,” which saw the expulsion of almost a million Palestinians from their homeland.

Dear International Community, Spare Us your Hypocrisy

Since its establishment, Israel has continued, with impunity, to violate the most basic principles of international law and human rights, suggesting that, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the sovereign equality of all nations remains nothing more than a beautifully phrased slogan that is void of practical meaning.

Amena El-Achkar

The “forbidden” taste of Palestine

“I know our craft does not make much money like it used to. People used to rely on us for building their houses, furniture, wooden antiques. But not anymore.”

100 Years after Balfour Conference: An Exploration of the Past and Future of Palestine

On December 13th and 14th, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) hosted an academic conference titled “100...

Trump Can Claim Jerusalem, But the International Community Is Not On His Side

In a monumentally disappointing speech, President Donald J. Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the White...

Stitching Palestine: Resistance Comes In Many Forms

Twelve patterns, twelve regions, twelve women, twelve stories. Stitching Palestine is a documentary directed by Carol Mansour and produced and researched by...

Chief AUBMC Surgeon discusses operating on injured Palestinians in Gaza

Abu Sitta discussed his experience in Gaza chronologically, and provided his own analysis and conclusions on the events taking place.

Is Gaza under the belligerent occupation of Israel?

The extent to which Israel has control over Gaza creates a reasonable basis to assume that it amounts to “effective control,” despite the physical absence of the IDF in the Gaza Strip.

Faculty Members at the American University of Beirut Release A Statement on Jerusalem

American University of Beirut Faculty Statement on Jerusalem. Released 19/12/2017 On December 6, 2017 President Trump declared that the United...

Hands Off Jerusalem!

In the midst of the demonstration in Ramallah yesterday, on December 7, 2017, young men and women were chanting in...

A 70 Years Long Nightmare

On November 29, 1947 UN resolution 181 gave the land of Palestine to strangers coming from afar and shattered...

Review of 36 Abbas Street, Haifa: Home is Hope

On a dark stage, a foreign melody plays; its distinct nationalistic undertones sound original and second-hand. Although unfamiliar to my...

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