The tale of two first amendments April 15, 2021, 7:07 PM IST
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New book Showpiece City tells the story of Dubai s beginnings through architecture
Starting in the early 20th century, Todd Reisz highlights the successes and failures that shaped the foundations of the emirate
Dubai residents on an abra headed across Dubai Creek, with the diwan on the opposite side in Bur Dubai. Courtesy Richard Turpin, John R. Harris Library.
The National Bank of Dubai headquarters in Deira, early 1970s. Courtesy John R. Harris Library and Henk Snoek / RIBA Collections.
Aerial view of Rashid Hospital, sometimes referred to as Health City. The hospital was one of Dubai’s first drive-to destinations. Courtesy John R. Harris Library.
Jehad Abusalim (American Friends Service Committee)
In this session we examined the situation in the Gaza Strip, including how the Gaza Strip came to be isolated from the West Bank and besieged by Israel, the role of Hamas and related Palestinian political dynamics, and the humanitarian situation in light of repeated Israeli military campaigns, more than a decade of blockade, and now COVID.
Part 5 – Palestinian Refugees and the Role of UNRWA
Featuring:
Gwyn Lewis (UNRWA),
Diba Abu Nejila (humanitarian professional)
In this session we focused on Palestinian refugees – one of the core issues of the conflict and which under the Olso Accords was to be resolved in the context of permanent status talks between Israelis and Palestinians. We will examine how Palestinians became refugees, the role and development of UNRWA as the organization responsible for Palestinian refugees, and the debate around the continued status of many Palestinians as refugees today.
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“In 1930, Grigory Etkind was arrested in his apartment in Leningrad. Five months later, his son came home from school one day and asked a gray-bearded man, who was sitting on the staircase, ‘May I pass, please?’ ‘Fima, it’s me,’ said the man, using his son’s nickname.”
This shocking episode, in which a son couldn’t recognize his father after the totalitarian Soviet machine had finished with him, is recounted by Alexander Etkind in his book “Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied” (Stanford University Press, 2013). Grigory Etkind was Alexander’s grandfather; the son who didn’t recognize him was Alexander’s uncle, Efim Etkind, who went on to become a well-known scholar of literature and Russian dissident.
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