The +972 Podcast
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Remembering the Nakba of urban Palestine
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Jaffa was once a cosmopolitan port city deeply connected to the Arab world. Then, within a few years after 1948, it was transformed: most of its Palestinian population was expelled, its institutions seized and repurposed, and the few residents who remained were confined to a ghetto, often in houses that were not their own, under laws designed to make that dispossession permanent. Abed Abou Shhadeh, a community organizer and researcher, comes from one of the few families that never left. Today, he is raising his children in the city his great-grandfather refused to flee. Abou Shhadeh traces how the catastrophe of 1948 unfolded specifically in Jaffa, the parallels he draws between the ethnic cleansing of the city and the genocide in Gaza, and what it means to resist erasure across generations.
Additional reading:
- Abed Abou Shhadeh’s archive at +972
- For Palestinian parents, every day of this war provokes existential anxiety
The full transcript of this episode will be available on our website.
Theme music by Ghassan Birumi