Media
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Trump plans to ‘permanently resettle’ Palestinians outside Gaza - the very reason UNRWA was originally created. With Jo Kelcey. The Conversation, February 2025.
Sweden’s decision to stop funding UNRWA threatens the education of an entire generation. With Jo Kelcey. Development Today, January 2025.
UNRWA Funding is Burdened with Conditionality, The Cairo Review, May 2024.
Gaza war: ‘no evidence’ of Hamas infiltration of UN aid agency, says report – but US and UK dither on funding while famine takes hold, The Conversation, April 2024.
UNRWA Under Fire. With Jo Kelcey. Think Global Health, February 2024.
Netanyahu’s position becoming more uncertain as Israeli PM rejects Hamas deal to end war, The Conversation, February 2024.
Gaza conflict: what is UNRWA and why is Israel calling for its abolition? With Jo Kelcey. The Conversation, February 2024.
Why is Gaza so central to the Palestinian struggle?+972 magazine, January 2024.
The Long, Bloody History of the Israel-Gaza “Border”.The Nation, November 2023.
Israel-Hamas war: Six key moments for the Gaza Strip. The Conversation, October 2023.
Why Palestinians Could Be Facing Another Nakba. The Nation, August 2023.
Israel: unpopular judicial reform involves repeal of law set up under British colonial rule in Palestine – here’s what that tells us.The Conversation, July 2023.
Dispelling the myths about Palestinian refugees — in Jenin and beyond. +972 magazine, July 2023.
Jenin attack created 4,000 new refugees, part of the endless cycle of Palestinian displacement since 1948. The Conversation, July 2023.
US no longer thinks Israeli settlements are illegal – this is a green light for more Palestinian displacement.The Conversation, November 2019.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees faces another crisis. With Jo Kelcey. The Washington Post, August 2019.
What Jared Kushner’s ‘deal of the century’ would mean for Palestinian refugees. The Conversation, August 2018.
Trump cuts aid to Palestinian refugees – and throws their future into doubt. The Conversation, January 2018.
Deaths of five teenagers in the West Bank expose mainstream indifference to Palestinian life. With Shahnaz Ahsan. Mondoweiss, July 2014.
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Why are Israel and its Western allies targeting UNRWA? Al Jazeera The Bottom Line, February 2024.
BBC Newsday interview on the catastrophe in Gaza, January 2024.
Israel-Gaza war: what’s going on in the West Bank? BBC Radio 4, November 2023.
Times Radio interview on displacement in Gaza, October 2023.
Refugees as grassroots activists. MEMO, July 2023.
Can the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees survive? Al Jazeera Inside Story, January 2022.
Times Radio panel discussion on refugees. August 2021.
5 Minutes with Dr Anne Irfan: Palestinian refugees in the 21st century. Birkbeck University of London, 2021
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Israel-Hamas war: What’s happening in the West Bank? Sensemaker, Tortoise media, November 2023.
Refuge and Resistance. POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast, November 2023.
Refugees as grassroots activists: MEMO in conversation with Dr Anne Irfan. Middle East Monitor, August 2023.
Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System. New Books Network, June 2023.
Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the global refugee regime. Oxford Refugee Studies Centre, May 2023.
UNRWA, its work and archives. With Jo Kelcey. Jerusalem Unplugged, January 2023.
Rejecting Resettlement: The case of the Palestinians. Forced Migration Review, March 2017.
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Quoted by Taz Ali in inews: Israel ‘in secret talks to send Gazans to Congo as part of resettlement plan’, January 2024.
Interviewed by Jonathan Shamir for Jewish Currents: Israel’s “Humanitarian” Expulsion, December 2023.
Interviewed by Ben Hubbard for the New York Times: With 102 workers killed, UN agency in Gaza struggles to provide aid, November 2023.
Interviewed by Emily Olson for NPR: 4 things to know about UNRWA, Gaza's largest aid organization, November 2023.
Interviewed by Annabelle Timsit for The Washington Post: What to know about Gaza refugee camps after Israeli strike on Jabalya, October 2023.
Interviewed by Monika Pronczuk for the New York Times: What to know about UNRWA, the largest aid organisation in Gaza, October 2023.