Citations:nakba

English citations of nakba

citations which refer to the 1948 foundation of the State of Israel

• Jeff Halper, The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control in Fall 2000, Middle East Report, volume 30:

  Mofaz also noted that during the “events” marking the nakba he was “not far” from giving the order to use attack helicopters against Palestinian policemen.

• 2003, Ghada Hashem Talhami, Palestinian Refugees: Pawns to Political Actors, Nova Science Publishers, page 9:

  In most Arab histories, they were a living testament to the nakba’s destruction of the Palestinian community.

• 2005, Doug Suisman et al., The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State, RAND, page 77:

  On the positive sice, in Palestinian historiography, the very raison d’etre of the new state will be to end the suffering and dispossession of the Palestinian people that began with the “nakba,” or catastrophe, of Israel’s founding in 1948.

• 2007, Sumantra Bose, Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka, Harvard University Press, page 294:

  Since 1948 Palestinians have viewed the conflict through the lens of the nakba—the catastrophe of the Jews’ victory and the fulfillment of the Zionist enterprise through the formation of the State of Israel on 77 percent of Palestine, […]

• 2008, Ilana Feldman, Governing Gaza →ISBN, page 200:

  As we have seen in every arena of service provision, the 1948 nakba destroyed the financial and organizational basis of religious servicing.

• Julie Peteet, Stealing Time in Fall 2008, Middle East Report, volume 38:

  In other words, the events of 1948 and 1967—the nakba and the occupation—are treated as faits accomplis.

mention-y citations of the common noun

• 1995, Mohammad-Mahmoud Mohamedou, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Societal transition to democracy in Mauritania, page 13:

  While a "nakba" referred to an invasion by an alien (non-Muslim) power, often accompanied by mass looting, destruction, and population uprooting.

• 2003, "Toto" (username), Palestinians are STILL clueless and comitted to ENDLESS terrorism!, alt.politics.liberalism, Usenet:

  Al-Quds, the largest Palestinian daily, described the collapse of Baghdad as a nakba (catastrophe). "This is not going to be the last nakba," it said in an editorial. "The Anglo-American victory will open the colonialists' appetite to devour more Arab capitals. This nakba is added to a series of disasters that have plagued the […]

• 2013, Chris Mitchell, Dateline Jerusalem, page 219:

  For Muslims, the capture in 1967 of the Temple Mount (Harem al— Sharif to them) stands as a nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe.”

• 2014, Alex Lubin, Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary, page 161:

  At the ceremony to donate the funds, Rafik Husseini, an aide to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, referred to what happened in New Orleans as a nakba.