A Culture of Defiance
The Heba Zagout Cultural Resistance Prize & ECPS & Palestine Chronicle Special Issue The Heba Zagout Cultural Resistance Prize & ECPS & Palestine Chronicle Special Issue The Heba Zagout Cultural Resistance Prize & ECPS & Palestine Chronicle Special Issue
Nadia Naser-Najjab & Ilan Pappe
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Breaking the Taboo: Palestine and Armed Resistance
By Thinking Palestine Editors Introducing this issue, the editors confront the taboo surrounding Palestinian armed...
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The Gun and the Olive Branch: Anti-Colonial Armed Struggle from South Africa to Palestine
By Ronnie Kasrils Drawing on South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, Ronnie Kasrils examines how armed resistance,...
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The Other Side of the Struggle: The Untold History of Palestinian Women’s Resistance
By Romana Rubeo Romana Rubeo traces nearly a century of Palestinian women’s resistance, restoring organizers,...
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Was Hamas Created by Israel? The Myth that Erases Palestinian Agency
By Robert Inlakesh Robert Inlakesh challenges claims that Israel created or propped up Hamas, showing...
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Outsmarting the Sky: The Secret History of Gaza’s Subterranean Resistance
By Ramzy Baroud Tracing Gaza’s armed struggle from ancient defenses to modern tunnel warfare,...
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Palestine Resists: From Fanon and Kanafani to Armed Struggle and Return
By Tahrir Hamdi Drawing on anti-colonial thinkers and Palestine’s revolutionary history, Tahrir Hamdi argues that...
Everything We Thought Was Beautiful: Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women
By Benay Blend What does resistance look like through the eyes of Palestinian women? Through conversations with activists, journalists, writers, educators, artists, and community organizers,...
Resistance as Memory, Resistance as Life – ‘Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir’
By Ron Jacobs Through the story of one family, Ramzy Baroud recounts the story of Palestine itself. Spanning three generations, Before the Flood combines memoir,...
A Courageous Witness Against Silence: ‘When the World Sleeps’
By Michael Leonardi Originally published in Italian as Quando il Mondo Dorme by Feltrinelli, Francesca Albanese’s ‘When the World Sleeps’ brings one of the most...
Territorial Imperialism Returns: What Lies Behind the Israeli Assault on Iran?
From Israel’s early alliance with the Shah’s Iran to the rise of messianic Zionism and expanding regional warfare, a pressing question has resurfaced amid the 2026 assault on Iran.
Iran’s Chess Game: The Grandmaster is Not far from Checkmate
By Jeremy Salt In this analysis, Jeremy Salt examines the expanding US-Israeli war on Iran through the metaphor of chess, arguing that Washington and Tel...
Beyond the Veil of Propaganda: The Realities of Iranian Society
By Hanieh Tarkian Hanieh Tarkian challenges Western narratives on Iran, arguing that it has been caricatured to justify aggression. Examining Iran’s social development, scientific rise,...
Resistance as Ideology: Iran’s Political Culture of Survival
By M. Reza Behnam In this analysis, M. Reza Behnam examines Iran’s modern political identity through the intertwined histories of anti-colonial resistance, the 1979 Islamic...
The Gaza Genocide beneath the Shadows of the Iran War: The Limits of Power
Richard Falk examines the Gaza genocide and the expanding US-Israeli war on Iran as interconnected expressions of a broader geopolitical project.
BRICS, Global South, and Iran: Multipolarity and Shifting Power
By Iqbal Jassat In this analysis, Iqbal Jassat examines the US-Israeli wars on Iran through the lens of BRICS and the emerging multipolar order, arguing...
TIMELINE: Iran through the Ages: From Ancient Persia to Modern Resistance
By Thinking Palestine Editors For thousands of years, Iran has stood at the crossroads of empire, trade, culture, and conflict. From the rise of ancient...
Ilan Pappé
is a professor at the University of Exeter. He was formerly a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa.
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is Senior lecturer in Palestine Studies, European Centre for Palestine Studies- Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.
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Professor Ilan Pappé and Dr Ghada Karmi founded the European Centre for Palestinian Studies (ECPS) in 2009 in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) at Exeter University (Russell Group).
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Professor Ilan Pappé and Dr Ghada Karmi founded the European Centre for Palestinian Studies (ECPS) in 2009 in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) at Exeter University (Russell Group).
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