Anne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
In this episode, Joe Williams speaks to historian Anne Irfan about her new book, A Short History of the Gaza Strip (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Drawing on more than a decade of research, Irfan traces the political, social, and humanitarian history of Gaza from 1948 to the present, situating the territory’s current devastation within a much longer trajectory of displacement, occupation, and international governance.
The book examines six key junctures in Gaza’s modern history — from the mass refugee influx of 1948 and the Egyptian administration, through decades of Israeli occupation, the First…
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