My narrative of 1948 also lays bare the fundamental injustice of the situation that the Palestinians found themselves in. I do this by extracting 1948 from the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and placing it instead in the history of British colonialism in Palestine
Ilham Makdisi and Laila Parsons
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi is Associate Profess or of History at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Eastern Meditteranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 (UC Press, 2013).
Laila Parsons is an associate professor of history and Islamic studies at McGill University. She is the author of The Druze Between Palestine and Israel, 1947-49.