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, fighters, prisoners, journalists and caregivers to their central place in national history. In October 1929, hundreds of Palestinian women gathered in Jerusalem. They came from Jaffa and Haifa, Nablus and Akka, Ramallah, Jenin, Safad and elsewhere, at a moment of […]

Memory as Archive: ‘Palestine Revealed’ and the Ongoing Nakba

By Romana Rubeo For many readers, Palestine is encountered through headlines, statistics, and political debates. In Palestine Revealed, Hanan Kattan offers a different point of entry. Blending family memory with historical reflection, she traces the Palestinian experience across generations, revealing how stories, traditions, and everyday acts of remembrance become forms of resistance against erasure. At […]

Blueprint of Failure: On Iran, Gaza, and How Europe Plotted Its Own Irrelevance

By Romana Rubeo From Iran to Palestine, from Ukraine to quiet acquiescence under American dictates, Europe appears increasingly devoid of strategic direction. Worse still, in this critical reading of Europe’s relationship with the Middle East—and with its own future—Italian journalist and intellectual Romana Rubeo argues that the continent is not merely adrift, but actively complicit […]