Planeloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks. Many of them had been living in the poor neighborhoods of Hatikva and Shapira in southern Tel Aviv, working in such jobs as hotel chambermaids or waiters. Israel has just..
Mimi Kirk
Mimi Kirk is Editor for the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic and Middle East Report. She is editor, with Chris Toensing, of Uncovering Iraq: Trajectories of Disintegration and Transformation (2010) and, with Rochelle Davis, of the forthcoming Palestine and the Palestinians in the Twenty-first Century.