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This show is inspired by Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, a local group that has advocated for 20 years for a fair and even-handed U.S. foreign policy that recognizes the rights of both Palestinians and Israelis. Our program offers interviews with journalists, scholars, policy experts and activists to offer multiple perspectives, and to clarify the underlying issues that are often obscured by headline news.
In this our second episode of the Nakba Project we listen to more stories of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon taken from videotaped interviews in the Nakba Archive. 20 years ago the Nakba Archive was co-founded by Diana Allan, Professor at McGill University, and Mahmoud Zeidan, who conducted many of the interviews. In this episode we begin with Zeidan’s account of events in the village of Deir Yassin before, during and after the massacre in April 1948. The Deir Yassin Massacre was a pivotal event that led to the exodus of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their towns and villages. Then three women talk about their lives in Palestine before the Nakba and the circumstances that caused their abrupt flights to Lebanon as the attacks and bombings of neighboring communities terrorized them.
