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Recently, the UN passed a resolution to recognize Nakba Day on May 15 to mark the anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948. The resolution helps to acknowledge past traumas, but does it have other implications? Will it impact solutions on the ground? Might it change the way some people view history and therefore how they think about the future?
On this week’s episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we meet up with M. Muhannad Ayyash, professor of sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, to help unpack some of the meanings behind this resolution.
Ayyash talks about the abundance of possible solutions. He says: “Nobody is going anywhere. So we need to imagine social and political life on this land, beyond the Euro-American, colonial, ideology… We need to rethink fundamental questions about our relationship to the land and our relationship to each other.”
Listen to the episode to hear more.
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All the best.
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Vinita Srivastava
Host + Producer, Don't Call Me Resilient | Senior Editor, Culture + Society
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It’s been 75 years since Palestinians were first expelled from their homeland. Here, people from Tantura as they were relocated to Jordan, June 1948.
(Benno Rothenberg/Meitar Collection/National Library of Israel/The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)
Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Boké Saisi, The Conversation
The UN’s resolution to recognize Nakba Day on May 15, to mark the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948, helps to acknowledge past traumas but does the resolution have other implications?
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(Michael Cuviello/Amarillo Globe-News via AP)
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