Sept. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, the U.S. War Department organized the country's first standing army -- 700 soldiers who would serve for three years. In 1923, Britain began to govern ...

In “Ghosts of a Holy War,” Yardena Schwartz explores an anti-Jewish pogrom in British Mandate Palestine and how it echoed across the next century. Before Oct. 7, there was Aug. 24. On that date in ...

The British Government today rejected the proposal that it surrender its twenty-year-old mandate over Palestine to the United States, in an acrimonious debate in the House of Lords raised by Lord ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: UK policies during the British Mandate directly paved the way for the displacement of Palestinians and ...

Anne Irfan receives funding from the British Academy to research the origins of international refugee and mobility policies. Israel’s parliament has voted to significantly shrink the power of the ...

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinian people over land, power and self-determination have been a defining feature of Middle Eastern geopolitics for the best part of a century, but the ongoing ...

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Annemarie Jacir balances raw emotion and intimate detail in an ensemble historical drama set during the British Mandate for Palestine, starring Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbas alongside lesser-known faces ...