A Short History of the Gaza Strip - Softcover

Irfan, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1398565393 ISBN 13: 9781398565395

Verlag: Simon + Schuster UK, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

'An excellent primer . . . essential reading' GUARDIAN

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The world's eyes are on the Gaza Strip. After more than a year of Israeli military bombardment, it is the scene of unimaginable destruction. It is also one of the most politically significant territories on the planet. Yet how many of us know anything of its history?

In this vital book, Anne Irfan, a leading historian of Palestine-Israel, examines six key moments that bring us to the present day. She begins with Israel's expulsion of the Palestinian people in 1948, when Israel was established and the Gaza region was truncated to a tiny territory of just 141 square miles. Going on to detail Israel's occupations of Gaza, the Palestinian national struggle and formation of the PLO, the first intifada, the creation of the Palestinian Authority and the rise of Hamas, Irfan argues that, collectively, these events help explain how we have arrived at the catastrophe of the 2020s and the genocidal violence unleashed by Israel in Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks of October 7.

Written with remarkable clarity, A Short History of the Gaza Strip draws on a decade of meticulous research, weaving in the voices and stories of Palestinians from farmers and teachers to poets and activists. It is an indispensable read for anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge of Palestine and the wider region. In Irfan's words, 'History matters, especially in Palestine' - and never more so than today.

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'Wonderfully informative, nuanced, humane' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Book of the Year

'Explains with wonderful lucidity the context for Gaza's catastrophe' NEW STATESMAN

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Anne Irfan is a multiple award-winning historian and lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London, where her work focuses on Palestine-Israel. She is a leading expert on Palestinian refugee rights and in 2023 published the academic book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System. She was previously lecturer at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre and has also taught at the London School of Economics.

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From a leading scholar of Palestine-Israel, a brief, essential history of the besieged strip of land, revealing the roots of the current crisis.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1398565393
• ISBN 13: 9781398565395
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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