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Clearly, Israelis have a ton to be traumatized by. But Palestinians?  

My daughter Tala, a 19-year-old Palestinian who lives in the UK, drew this illustration in May 2021 as our family who lives in Gaza weathered a massive military assault that killed 256 Gazans, including 66 children, and injured and displaced thousan..

I set out to explore the literature of Arab women writers in the diaspora—a topic that has not been addressed by other researchers. Of course, these women were recognized individually but not as part of a collective that acknowledged their unique experience of ..

Maghrebi literature is one of the most thematically, linguistically, and politically diverse literatures in the world. This diversity is due in no small part to the different geographies, cultures, and temporalities shaping Maghrebi literature. While much scholarship has focused on the Arabic wi..

The Holocaust for Jews and the Nakba for Palestinians are what the historian Alon Confino termed “foundational pasts,” or what the political psychiatrist Vamik Volkan called “chosen traumas.” This coedited volume is part of an ongoing, collaborative project that bega..

Contemporary protracted conflicts across the Middle East have presented health systems and professionals with unprecedented challenges. The objective of this manifesto on conflict medicine is to highlight the need for a better understanding of the different pathways of injury and re-injury withi..

Stephan Milich, Friederike Pannewick, and Leslie Tramontini, editors, Conflicting Narratives: War, Trauma, and Memory in Iraqi Culture. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012.

[This review was originally published in the Fall 2015 issue of

Kamran Rastegar, Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 

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The evacuations of settlements in a colonial situation can represent moments of potential rupture and reversal of a political order rooted in dispossession. In the case of Israel and Palestine, however, such moments are ch..

Nancy Kricorian loves proverbs, especially Armenian ones. She has been collecting them for years, finding them in various books and corners of the internet and then saving them in her ever growing collection, which she shares through social media. Her cu..

[The following report was issued by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School and the Global Justice Clinic at the NYU School of Law.] 

Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices i..

A thick stack of black and white photographs flutters to the floor. A man stands over the jumbled pile and, looking past bent corners and nibbled edges, sees dozens of faces staring up at him. These faces are vaguely familiar—an old neighbor, a distant cousin, an aunt who used to spend summers w..

Shahla Talebi, Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011.

Winner of the 2011 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice, and ..

The ubiquitous presence of humanitarian organizations in Lebanon since the 2006 war has created a variety of well-paid jobs and careers and sought to produce new forms of Lebanese subjectivities. Primarily, the humane subject who performs humanity ..