Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:34:26 PM
Revered by Muslims, Christians and Jews, this beautiful city is holy and cursed, drowned in blood yet still magnificent. Last year, the Arab ministers of information designated 26 September as Jerusalem Day. Rashid Khalidi* unravels modern myths and ancient passions in his search to locate the united heart of this torn and worshiped place
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:30:37 PM
Ostracised by Israeli society and repeatedly threatened with death at the hands of her own people, Felicia Langer* has not flinched since the day in 1967 she adopted the Palestinian cause as her own.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:29:02 PM
A Harvard University report based on a simulated negotiation exercise denies the Palestinian right of return and demands that Arab governments compensate Arab Jews for emigrating to Palestine. Salman Abu-Sitta* deconstructs the dry run.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:21:28 PM
For three decades Gabriel Baramki was vice-president of Bir Zeit University. Now he plays a leading role in raising international awareness about the dispossession of the Palestinians but, as Mariz Tadros found out, his conversations often lead him back to
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:13:09 PM
Paradoxically, the fruit of Oslo will perhaps be that the Palestinian struggle for justice will "return to the source," writes Norman G Finkelstein
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/14/2023 5:11:35 PM
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon continue to suffer twice: for their expulsion from their homeland, and from the inhuman conditions in which they live. In this anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Rosemary Sayigh* argues, we must challenge Israel's absolute refusal to repatriate the Palestinian diaspora -- the condition on which it was admitted to the UN 50 years ago
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World
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Region
5/14/2023 1:11:13 PM
Calm returned to Gaza Sunday as a fragile ceasefire ending five days of fighting held, leaving Palestinians and Israelis to count the cost of cross-border fire which has killed dozens.
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World
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Region
5/14/2023 10:45:01 AM
A fragile cease-fire between Israeli forces and militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Sunday, after a five-day clash that killed 33 Palestinians.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/13/2023 11:14:00 PM
An Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip came into effect at 10pm local time (1900 GMT) on Saturday evening, ending five days of Israeli aggression on the strip.
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World
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Region
5/13/2023 7:23:02 PM
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Saturday he was against blocking financial aid to the Palestinian Authority over hateful and anti-Semitic content in Palestinian school books.
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World
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Region
5/12/2023 7:47:42 PM
Israel treats the Palestinian territories as its colonies, maintaining occupation to get as much land as possible for Jewish people, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories said on her first visit to London, reported the Guardian on Friday.
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World
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Region
5/12/2023 6:07:00 PM
The most violent confrontation in months between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions continued for a third straight day on Friday, as Israeli warplanes struck targets in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian resistance factions fired more rockets at Israel and hopes of securing a truce faded.
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World
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Region
5/12/2023 5:21:00 PM
UN experts have warned that justice for the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has been denied, a year after she was shot dead while reporting on Israel’s raid in the Jenin refugee camp.
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World
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Region
5/11/2023 10:55:45 PM
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed two militant commanders on Thursday, the Israeli occupation army said, as the Palestinian death toll from the latest burst of fighting rose to 28. Rocket fire toward southern Israel continued even as Egypt pressed on with attempts to broker a cease-fire.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/11/2023 5:12:59 PM
The right to self-defence is indivisible for both the Palestinian and Israeli sides, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said, emphasising that "we aim to sidestep it to avoid entering into a vicious cycle of reciprocal violence.”
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World
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Region
5/11/2023 1:54:19 PM
Israel and Palestinian groups traded more heavy fire Thursday, the third day of the worst escalation of violence in months that has killed 25 people in Gaza.
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World
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Region
5/11/2023 9:58:07 AM
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed a fourth Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander on Thursday, raising the death toll from the latest burst of fighting to 25.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/11/2023 12:01:00 AM
More rockets were fired toward Israel, while Israel struck more targets in Gaza as Egyptian TV channel “Extra News” said Wednesday that Egypt has brokered an “immediate” cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza.
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World
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Region
5/10/2023 5:50:01 PM
Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, in a first response to ongoing Israeli airstrikes that have killed 19 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Nakba remembered
5/10/2023 5:09:08 PM
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