The outlet, The Markaz Review, has run an edited extract from my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and I’ve written a brief introduction, post 7 October, to frame the work: History didn’t begin on October 7, 2023. Palestine was occupied long before then. And yet the brutal Hamas attacks on October 7 were unprecedented. Daring in…
Articles in The Markaz
On not ignoring the struggles of Africa
My essay/book review in the US outlet The Markaz Review is on a new book by the great writer, Anjan Sundaram, Break-Up: A Reporter’s Marriage Amid a Central African War: The Central African Republic (CAR) is mostly ignored in the mainstream media, but in sparse depictions it’s often portrayed as a faraway nation bedeviled by…
The warmth, memory and strength of Gaza
My essay, reportage and personal reflections about Gaza in US magazine The Markaz. The outlet is publishing an entire edition about Gaza, a Palestinian territory that’s routinely shunned, ignored and demonised in the West. Here’s the beginning of my piece (and read the whole thing): The Children Land’s Kindergarten sits in the Bedouin village of…