In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “term used to describe the still unfolding palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" in the wake of the 1948 arab-i”. Today it says “historiographical framework and term that interprets the palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" as a still emer”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “term used to describe the still unfolding palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" in the wake of the 1948 arab-i”. Today it says “historiographical framework and term that interprets the palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" as a still emer”.
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Ongoing Nakba " ( Arabic : النکبة المستمرة , romanized : al-nakba al-mustamirra ) is a historiographical framework and term that interprets the Palestinian " Nakba " or "catastrophe" as a still emerging and unfolding phenomenon. The phrase emerged in the late 1990s and its first public usage is widely credited to Hanan Ashrawi , who referred to it in a speech at the 2001 World Conference against Racism . The term was later adopted by scholars such as Joseph Massad and Elias Khoury . As an intellectual framework, the "ongoing Nakba" narrative reflects the conceptualisation of the Palestinian experience not as a series of isolated events, but as "a continuous experience of violence and dispossession", or as other have termed it, the "recurring loss" ( Arabic : الفقدان المتكرر , romanized : al-fuqdan al-mutakarrir ) of the Palestinian people.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Term for the ongoing trauma of the Palestinian people " Ongoing Nakba " ( ) is a term used to describe the still unfolding Palestinian " Nakba " or "catastrophe" in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and concurrent expulsion and flight of Palestinians . The phrase emerged in the late 1990s and its first public usage is widely credited to Hanan Ashrawi , who referred to it in a speech at the 2001 World Conference against Racism . The term was later adopted by scholars such as Joseph Massad and Elias Khoury . As an intellectual framework, the "ongoing Nakba" narrative reflects the conceptualisation of the Palestinian experience not as a series of isolated events, but as "a continuous experience of violence and dispossession", or as other have termed it, the "recurring loss" ( ) of the Palestinian people.
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In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “term used to describe the still unfolding palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" in the wake of the 1948 arab-i”. Today it says “historiographical framework and term that interprets the palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" as a still emer”. Read the current article and compare.
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term used to describe the still unfolding palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" in the wake of the 1948 arab-i
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historiographical framework and term that interprets the palestinian " nakba " or "catastrophe" as a still emer
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