Saree Makdisi

Saree Makdisi, professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, is the author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton).

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  • The Strangulation of Gaza

    February 1, 2008

    The breach in the wall at Rafah dramatized the fact that an imprisoned population is at the point of starvation.

2007

2006

  • Lessons Learned

    August 20, 2006

    As a tentative ceasefire takes hold between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the world--and the United States in particular--should ponder lessons learned and the price we will pay for our role in the conflict.

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