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ELECTRONIC INTIFADA

Gaza’s Ancient Treasures Threatened GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical tr...

GLOBAL DIALOGUE

Life at the Crossroads A Long Experience of War': Gaza in Historical Perspective Before Israel’s blitz on the Gaza Strip in late-2008/early-2009, one might have found individuals around the world w...

SUNDAY MAIL

Where the Average Age is 17 The Gaza Strip could so easily have been seen here, had it not been for one simple difference between Cyprus and Palestine: nobody other than Turkey gave them the right...

CYPRUS WEEKLY

The Flying Journalist Middle East correspondent Gerald Butt says he has lost the appetite for covering wars, but certainly not for flying small planes. "When you are flying you are literally off th...

THE MIDDLE EAST

Life at the Crossroads The latest Israeli war on the Gaza strip, which ended in mid-january this year, was but the latest onslaught on the Territory and its inhabitants in a series stretching back...

AL-QUSD AL-ARABI

Life at the Crossroads All the invaders who set up camp in the city or on its borders left their mark, before moving on. But what the invaders left in the psyche of the people of Gaza was a hatred ...

GCS INFO

Life as a Palestinian Ms Nora Shawwa came to talk to us this term about life as a Palestinian, a life full of hardships that most of us would have never imagined. Palestinians could be described a...

DANISH DAILY INFORMATION

'Gazas omtumlede historier under lup' BBC's tidligere korrespondent Gerald Butt har skrevet en samlet fortælling om Gaza, som strækker sig fra Tuthmosis III til Israels seneste overgreb i vinteren ...

GULF TODAY

Life at the Crossroads & Jerusalemites   Two books on Palestine published this month by Rimal Publications, based in Nicosia, are on display at the Abu Dhabi book fair which opened on Tuesday ...

THE NATIONAL

Author Issues Grim Warning on Gaza NICOSIA - As grieving Gazans rebuild their shattered lives in the aftermath of 's recent onslaught, they can take cold comfort from their remarkably rich and tur...

THIS WEEK IN PALESTINE

Life at the Crossroads   It is perhaps a very appropriate year to re-read Gerald Butt's 1995 Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza. The many milestones of this 360 sq. km strip of land and par...

MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL

Book Review Gerals Butt has written a lively, intelligent and highly readable history of Gaza , about which precious little exists, especially in English. This work treats Gaza not as a violent, po...

INTL HERALD TRIBUNE

Life at the Crossroads Since January, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of and the Palestinian Authority president, Yasser Arafat, sealed the long awaited agreement to redeploy Israeli troops...

NEW YORK TIMES

A History of Gaza SINCE January, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian Authority president, Yasser Arafat, sealed the long awaited agreement to redeploy Israeli troo...

MIDDLE EAST COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

Book Review The Gaza Strip. The phrase conjures up scenes of over-population, turmoil, political unrest, tear gas canisters, Israeli soldiers, crowds of rock-throwing and chafiyyeh-clad youths. Bu...

CHURCH TIMES

A Prize for the Invaders: The Torment of Gaza This is a clever title for a history of Gaza . The Gaza Strip lies geographically on the crossroads between the Near East and North Africa - a land bri...

JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES

Old History Gerald Butt is well-known as having been a BBC correspondent in Beirut and Jerusalem throughout much of the 1980's. He provided firm journalistic coverage of the turbulent early years ...

AL HAYAT

Life at the Crossroads The British journalist Gerald Butt spent around eight years as correspondent for the BBC, during which time he covered some of the most prominent events in the region, not on...

MIDDLE EAST INTERNATIONAL

Deluged by History In this, the first comprehensive history of Gaza , Gerald Butt describes the rise and fall in the fortunes of this narrow strip of coast which, for over four millennia, has been...

DAILY STAR

The Crossroads Over and Over Again Rarely does one find a book so descriptive and precise as Life at the Crossroads. The book tells the story of the city of Gaza and its surrounding towns from abou...

TANMIYA

Book Review The Gaza Strip is a name familiar to millions outside the Middle East. It is also a name synonymous with an image of political turmoil, poverty hatred and violence. This book's highly ...

THE MAJALLA

The Land of the Intifada The intifada could well be the single event that placed Gaza on the world map and made it familiar to millions in the West. However, the scenes of violence the world saw o...