Archive of Nakba Day

A reading list on the history of the region, Israeli violence, and the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation.

"Tell me the name of your wound and I’ll tell you the road/where we’ll lose ourselves twice!"

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was one of the greatest writers of the past half-century. In this extract from his long poem Mural, Darwish draws on themes of loss and longing for this beautiful meditation on exile.

Israel's slow, cold violence, no less than the other kind, ought to be looked at and understood.