1936 Arab Revolt

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Ahmad Badawi Mustafa Ayoub with his family. (Courtesy of Samer Badawi)

In my Palestinian grandfather’s story, I find reasons to endure

Like all refugees, Ahmad Badawi Mustafa Ayoub left the world unmoored, his memories rent from the land that made them. But his story, like Palestine’s itself, will matter well beyond the next negotiation. No empire, no flag, or sovereign can change that. The Government of Palestine’s Directorate of Education, from its Samaria branch in Nablus, informed Ahmad…

By Samer Badawi November 11, 2018

Funeral for a victim of the 1929 Hebron Massacre. (Photographer unknown)

Book review: The year Palestine became a zero-sum game – 1929

After 1929, Arabic-speaking Jews who had lived in peace and cultural affinity with fellow residents, and orthodox Jews who had shunned Zionism, could no longer feel safe among their erstwhile neighbors and friends. They had to rely on the new Yishuv to protect them from then on, and they never looked back. Introducing new information…

By +972 Magazine January 10, 2014