The Nakba in the Present, Elias Khoury, SOAS University of London

Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture: The Nakba in the Present was given by Elias Khoury at SOAS University of London on 2 May 2018. Find out more at In this year 2018 marked by two competing 70th anniversaries – that of the creation of the state of Israel and that of the Palestinian Nakba – the CPS Annual Lecture will be delivered by Lebanese writer, novelist, university professor and prominent public intellectual Elias Khoury. In his lecture, Elias Khoury will discuss the following themes: - The Nakba as ethnic cleansing, and how it has been depicted in Israeli and Palestinian Literatures; - The Nakba as a settler-colonial process that is still ongoing; - The error in comparing the Nakba to the Holocaust, and Edward Said’s concept of ‘the victims of the victims’; - The Nakba as an open book. Elias Khoury has published 13 novels, translated into 15 languages. He has taught in several universities, including Columbia University and New York University