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Nakba

Latest Mosaic Content for Nakba

  1. Via Maris ·

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis

    By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

    How the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought.

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
  2. Response ·

    How the Jewish State Became So Important to the Self-Conception of the Arabs

    By Ghaith al-Omari, Jonathan Silver, and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

    Watch or read a discussion about the perennial power of the Nakba with Hussein Aboubakr and Ghaith al-Omari.

    How the Jewish State Became So Important to the Self-Conception of the Arabs
  3. Response ·

    Hamas’s Messianic Violence

    By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

    Why Hamas frames the Israel-Palestinian conflict with the imagery of divine justice and cosmic warfare, and why it appeals to so many in the West.

    Hamas’s Messianic Violence
  4. Monthly Essay ·

    The Perennial Power of the Nakba

    By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

    How generations of Arab thinkers and leaders tried to turn the humiliation of their losses to Israel into a springboard to launch their nations into an enchanted new age.

    The Perennial Power of the Nakba