[applause] good evening everybody, i am bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife and on behalf of everybody here, welcome and thank you for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store Rashid Khalidi who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years and before that taught at the university of chicago for a decade and ahalf. He is also editor of the journal of palestine studies, the author of sevenprevious books on the middle east. His newest work , the hundred years war on palestine covers some aspects of palestinian history that he has written about before butthis is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members who were present at some key events and provocative because he offers a very different take on the Israeli Palestinian
Television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] [applause] good evening everybody. I am bradley graham, the coowner of politics and prose. On behalf of everyone, welcome and thank you very much for coming. Its really great to welcome back to the store, rashid khalidi. Who is among the worlds foremost scholars on palestinian identity and nationalism. Hes been a professor of arab studies at Columbia University now for 17 years. Before that, taught at the university of chicago for a decade andahalf. Hes also editor of the journal of palestine studies. And the author of seven previous books on the middle east. His newest work, the hundred years war on palestine. Covers some aspects of palestinian history that rashid has written about before that this is a more personal book and a more provocative one. Personal because rashid merges scholarship with personal stories drawn from generations of his own family members. Who are present at key events. And provocative because he offers a
To r. T. International my name is you know known welcome to the program 30 minutes. Start. Its been quite the night in the United Kingdom the conservative party secured an art right majority in the general election with leader Boris Johnson the clearing break that can i finally happen for the opposition though pretty much disastrous all raw and rebirth suffered humiliating defeat scenarios long regarded as their loyal heartlands of the liberal democrats who cold hard right for another referendum on a you membership saw their leader and bara singh lose her seat well lets find out more and cross to our to u. K. In westminster for a special continuing lection coverage on the conversation i see has already begun ginny going to take a sound i mean you can have a real problem if you dump them in a can i just sort of just find it incredible also with its history and whining history of the history without tourism and yet despite all the neo liberalism and all the coups that theyve experience i
A program of home demolitions in september targeting the makeshift shelters of the poor ahead of the u. N. Mission to iraq has called for the violence to stop in a tweet one of the few International Voices to speak up as iraq still struggles to deal with the aftermath of the invasion by the u. S. And its coalition of the willing in 2003 she had aljazeera. Iraqis who are worried about the safety of their family and friends back home and stage a protest in front of the white house. Members of the solidarity rally say they cant get a hold of the valid ones too true internet suspension they say the government crackdown is an attack on democracy you know your move on how the. Top of the shop in the uk and your we are here demonstrating in support of the people of iraq and this is a letter addressed to the white house asking them to help the iraqi people and stand against iranian interference and we call on the protests in iraq to continue to be a little much to do just a mcdonalds drive to
Iraqs government has denied that any of it Security Forces have fired directly at protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least 109 people have now been killed since the unrest began on tuesday and more than 6000 people have been injured she has more. After days of demonstrations across iraq for a number of dead continues to rise in the aftermath of the killings iraqs interior ministry pushed back on. The Security Forces for. The protesters but could be out of limb could take everyone knows there were no clashes or confrontations between the Security Forces on the protesters but there were wicked and he hands that targeted the victims on both sides when we went and checked the bodies of the motss the injuries were in the head or the heart it is clear that the shooting did not take place from the close distance or from the area where the Security Forces were present a Serious Investigation is ongoing to find out who is behind such a wicked and he miss operation. In schools