Sentence examples for a nakba of from inspiring English sources

Scotland, whose population is close to that of Palestine, has had its share of suffering, including a nakba of its own: During the Highland Clearances, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, landowners pushed out many local inhabitants to make way for sheep; pasturing herds was thought to be more profitable than hosting humans.

Palestinian journalist Nidal Ashtiyeh was left blinded in his left eye, when an IDF soldier shot him with a rubber bullet as he took photos of a Nakba Day protest by Palestinians to commemorate those Palestinians displaced by the creation of Israel.

Today, the entire region is experiencing a Nakba as the third major remapping of the Middle East in modern times gets underway.

Their close friendship began in the aftermath of the Nakba of 1948 and evolved into a shared commitment to justice for Palestinians to be realized through support for excellence in higher education and scholarship.

One of the many problems we face here in Palestine in the cultural scene is an isolation and a disconnection from other practices and practitioners in the Arab world and abroad, travel between our neighboring countries (and travel in general) has been near impossible since the Nakba of 1948, and so we have suffered a cultural caesura which is quite incommensurable.

He was seven when - in the Nakba of 1948 - he fled from Birweh, his village in the Galilee.

The Palestinian Revolution is a bilingual Arabic/English online learning resource that explores Palestinian revolutionary practice and thought from the Nakba of 1948, to the siege of Beirut in 1982.

The demonstration was in commemoration of what Palestinians call the "catastrophe," or "nakba," of Israel's creation in 1948, during which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes into exile.

The only thing heard nowadays about the majority of the Palestinian people – those made refugees in the Nakba of 1948 – is that they must consider themselves and their fate entirely forfeited.

"This is the Nakba of 2010," said 52-year-old Subhia al-Ghazawi, who moved to Rafah from Gaza City after her house was damaged in Israel's three-week invasion, which Israel said was aimed at stopping rocket fire into southern Israel.

In this so-called war, any pretext is used to inflict a second Nakba (the catastrophe of 1948) on the Palestinians.