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nakba

Posted by jodietonita on May 14, 2008

nakba
Photo: Hatem Moussa/The Associated Press

An elderly Palestinian in Gaza City holds a symbolic key in reference to what Arabs refer to as the Nakba, the Arabic word for ‘catastrophe,’ used to describe the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with the May, 1948, creation of the state of Israel.

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