“It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.” Henry Kissinger American students are notoriously bad at geography, and have been for some time. In 2002, for instance – the year after the 9/11 attacks – only 17% of American students could find Afghanistan…
Academics have long concerned themselves with maps of Palestine. But almost all of the published literature on Palestine maps– including the publication of the maps themselves – has dealt with those maps published in Europe by Europeans. But what about the Ottoman administrators who ruled over Palestine, and those (primarily Arabic speakers) that lived in…
August 8, 2016 Jay Syrmopoulos Palestine – Internet giant Google has come under fire from around the world this week, after removing the name Palestine from Google Maps and replacing it with Israel. Interestingly, international mainstream corporate media has completely blacked out any coverage of the incident or the global outrage it has sparked. Google…
