These are the prepared remarks of Dr. Ramzy Baroud for his address on the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, delivered in Geneva and Lyon, May 15–16, 2026.
The 2026 PEN World Voices Festival hosted “Narrating Palestine: Family, History, and Displacement” in New York City, an intimate and powerful conversation that felt less like a panel and more like a necessary reckoning with how Palestinian stories are told.
US President Donald Trump’s state visit to China last week will go down in history as the moment the US finally acknowledged Beijing’s ascendancy as a global superpower. That acknowledgment does not need to be articulated in a formal statement; it can be clearly read in the subtext of diplomatic behavior, global perception and shifting media coverage.
At a KPFK event in Los Angeles on May 9, Ramzy Baroud reflects on storytelling as an act of sumud, tracing the intimate relationship between memory, exile, resistance, and the struggle to preserve Palestinian humanity through words.
Situated in the genre of people’s history, the book traces the experiences of ordinary Palestinians across generations. Palestinian author and journalist, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, discusses his latest book, Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir, in a newly released interview with American journalist and author Chris Hedges, examining Palestinian resistance, historical memory, and the ongoing struggle […]
Palestinian Christians have been subjected to the same policies of ethnic cleansing, racism, and military occupation as their Muslim brothers and sisters.
If we remain dependent on US dictates and cues, we are merely subjects of an empire, discounting our own sense of agency and our own internal dynamics.
On Redacted, Baroud presents Before the Flood as a people’s history of Palestine rooted in memory and resistance.