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May 2021
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Episode 3: Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Y...

Jeffrey Sachs
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Send us a text Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Rashid Khalidi as they discuss Khalidi's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 and the long history of disenfranchisement against the Palestinian people. The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship e ... Show More
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