Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together RFG

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09 Jan

Research Focus Group Roundtable: Race and the Question of Palestine: Lana Tatour in Conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber

The Catastrophes RFG invites you to a roundtable with Lana Tatour, in conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber and moderated by Sherene Seikaly, about Tatour's recent co-edited volume (with Ronit Lentin), Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025). The book maintains...

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09 Aug

Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together

One of the most systematically ignored roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the intimate connection of two catastrophes, the Shoah (“catastrophe” in Hebrew) and the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic). The annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis (commonly referred to by the catachresis “Holocaust”) and...

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