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Just over a decade ago I was fortunate enough to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories, guided by some of the most insightful Jerusalem-based foreign correspondents of that time. They’d seen a lot, and I felt like I learned at least a little about a region of the world that regularly hits the headlines but is often misunderstood.
Within a couple of weeks, I was in London, preparing to help launch The Conversation’s first edition outside Australia. The London bureau began publishing ten years ago this week, taking the project to UK readers and academic experts in the UK to readers around the world. A superb team of editors, authors and other staff in the UK and Australia made it happen. That moment proved a key step in the growth of a network that would lead to the range of coverage we produce today – and to this email, which provides a twice-weekly snapshot of the news analysis and research generated by our bureaux in Australia, France, New Zealand, Indonesia, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Spain, Canada, the US and the UK. If you enjoy what we do, please consider forwarding this email to friends and colleagues and encouraging them to sign up.
There are experts on the Middle East around that network. Some of them have been writing for us in recent weeks, as Israel celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding. Today, Palestinians mark the pivotal moment in their recent history. For them, though, it is a moment of mourning rather than celebration. For more of our coverage of these anniversaries, click here. And stay tuned to this page for regularly updated, research-informed analysis of a wide range of matters from across The Conversation.
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Stephen Khan
Executive Editor, The Conversation International
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Carrying a key symbolising the right to return, a Palestinian woman marches through the streets of Ramallah on Nakba Day.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Alamy
Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London
Many in the west are unaware of the millions of Palestinians displaced in 1947-8.
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Eran Kaplan, San Francisco State University
Israel may no longer be a fledgling state – but it has yet to overcome the basic contradiction that has defined it from the very beginning.
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Gulcin Ozkan, King's College London
Whoever wins, the road ahead does not look pretty.
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Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University
Although the series perpetuates the stereotype that politically ambitious women can’t be trusted in high office, it thoughtfully portrays the ubiquity of everyday sexism in political culture.
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Kara Ross Camarena, Loyola University Chicago
Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
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Nicky Falkof, University of the Witwatersrand
Fear has important consequences for how people vote, what they spend their money on, who they consider to be part of their communities, and who they treat as outsiders.
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Greg Raymond, Australian National University
The two leading progressive parties must now form a coalition government – a task that could be complicated by the military-aligned parties.
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Thomas Hertog, KU Leuven
The enigma at the centre of our 20-year collaboration was how the Big Bang could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life
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Mandy Treagus, University of Adelaide
Marijane Meaker was a lesbian pulp fiction trailblazer who wrote bestselling YA fiction as M.E. Kerr. She was also Patricia Highsmith’s lover.
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Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, University of Cape Town; Karen Black, UNSW Sydney; Mike Archer, UNSW Sydney; Sue Hand, UNSW Sydney
Nimbadon lived 15 million years ago, in forests with flesh-eating kangaroos and tree-climbing crocodiles. Our first look inside their fossilised bones has revealed how these giants grew.
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Talia Ritondo, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Dawn Trussell, Brock University
Team sport provides postpartum mothers with opportunities to build community, enhance health and well-being, and counter the often unrealistic and self-sacrificing expectations of motherhood.
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