Anne Irfan, a multiple award-winning historian, lecturer, and leading historian of Palestine-Israel, recently published her book: A Short History of the Gaza Strip, with a foreword by Muhammad Shehada, by Anne Irfan (Simon & Schuster UK.)
Written with remarkable clarity, A Short History of the Gaza Strip draws on a decade of meticulous research, weaving in the voices and stories of Palestinians – from farmers and teachers to poets and activists. It is an indispensable read for anyone seeking to deepen their knowledge of Palestine and the wider region. In Irfan’s words, ‘History matters, especially in Palestine’ – and never more so than today.
Anne Irfan is a multiple award-winning historian and lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London, where her work focuses on Palestine-Israel. She is a leading expert on Palestinian refugee rights and in 2023 published the academic book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System. She was previously lecturer at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and has also taught at the London School of Economics.
Muhammad Shehada, author of the Foreword, is a political analyst, writer and human rights activist from Gaza, and a visiting fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).