Assal Rad is a scholar of Modern Middle Eastern history and a Nonresident Fellow at DAWN. She received her PhD at the University of California, Irvine. Follow her on Twitter @assalrad

The Nakba never ended

The Nakba—or the Catastrophe—is the term Palestinians use to describe the events of 1948 when they were violently dispossessed of their land and…

Gaza is a manufactured apocalypse

There are images and stories from Gaza over the last year that will surely haunt us for years to come—the kinds of pictures we see in history books…