Saree Makdisi

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

Currently

  • 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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Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
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An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
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Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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