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Hello and welcome to It Could Happen here.

My name is Donna El-Kurd.

I'm a researcher and analyst of Arab and Palestinian politics.

I'm recording this on May 19th, 26, and this past weekend, May 15th, was Nakba Day.

Nakba Day is the Arabic word for catastrophe. And Nakba Day commemorates when close to a million Palestinians were expelled in 1948 with the founding of the Israeli state, so the Palestinian catastrophe.

Hundreds of villages and towns were destroyed, and many Palestinians were made refugees

in camps around the new state, in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and farther afield.

Within Israel, Palestinians who somehow managed to remain were put under a military rule.

As the past few years have demonstrated, and as many Palestinians will tell you, this Nakhba never ended.

Usually I use this podcast to discuss current events or to interview someone who is an

expert on a dynamic I'm interested in and I think is useful for people to hear.

But today I'm going to be doing something a little different and outside my comfort zone.

I'm going to share my personal family history and our Nakhpa story.

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