Khaled hroub biography
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A nuanced introduction to the Palestinian organization
'A timely introduction' - Guardian
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas was created in , won the elections of the Legislative Council in , and governed the Gaza remsa since The attacks on October 7th and the subsequent war on Gaza have turned the international spotlight on them. What then fryst vatten Hamas' history, beliefs and political agenda? From its founding to its fierce fighting in the most recent war, this fryst vatten an indispensable introduction to the controversial political, social, religious and military organization.
Looking beyond the caricatures of Hamas' leaders and cadre, Palestinian writer Khaled Hroub reveals a group often guided bygd pragmatic aims. Asking the reader to re-think what they know, he provides the key facts often missing from news reports, and incisive analysis of their relationship with Israel and the West.
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About
Khaled AL-Hroub is professor in residence of the faculty of liberal arts at Northwestern University in Qatar. His focus is Middle Eastern studies and politics with particular interest on Islam and politics, Arab-Israeli conflict and Arab media studies. Hroub was a research associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, where he was the founder and director of Cambridge Arab Media Project (CAMP) until
He authored Hamas: A Beginners Guide (/), Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (), and edited Political Islam: Context versus Ideology () and Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East (). In Arabic he published Fragility of Ideology and Might of Politics (), In Praise of Revolution (), The Anxious Intellectual versus the Certain Intellectual (). Hroub also published in prose and poetry, and his publications in this area include Tattoo of Cities (prose, ), Enchantress of Poetry (poems, )
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Living in letters or the arrogance of a cityless man
Turning the misery of being dispossessed of their country into something good, many Palestinians have travelled the world over. They travelled and travelled until there was no more money to travel, or no more places to reach out. As they travelled more, they came to know many cities, as I did. The further they go, the closer to Palestine they get. I travelled a lot and fell for many cities. I don’t know if I was doing the right thing. But always driven by what H. C. Andersen once said: ‘To travel is to live’! When I travel, I write about the newly loved cities and the new friends I make in them. The more cities I visited the closer to Bethlehem, my city, I became. The below are three letters about cities and people.
Dear Ahmad, (Damascus)
I had tears in my eyes. Your unexpected phone call made me shudder. I felt the hair on my head and arms rising … literally! Your voice took me to those wonderful days, unravelling those th