Hussein Aboubakr

Dec 21, 2023 | mosaicmagazine.com | Hussein Aboubakr |Andrew Koss |Jonathan Silver |Meir Soloveichik

To mark the close of 2023, we asked several of our writers to name the best books they’ve read this year, and briefly to explain their choices. The second group of their answers appears below. Part I appeared yesterday and is available here. (Unless otherwise noted, all books were published in 2023. Classic books are listed by their original publication dates.)In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power (Yale, 152pp., $26), Robert D.

Oct 18, 2023 | mosaicmagazine.com | Hussein Aboubakr |Ghaith Al-Omari |Jonathan Silver

On September 28, Mosaic hosted a conversation between Aboubakr—the author of September’s feature essay on the role of the Nakba in the Arab imagination—and Ghaith al–Omari, a leading analyst of Palestinian affairs. If you want to understand how the Jewish state became so important to the self-conception of the Arabs, the recording of their conversation is a good place to start. Read or watch it below.

Oct 10, 2023 | mosaicmagazine.com | Hussein Aboubakr

The videos released by Hamas’s media wing showcasing their murderous acts from this past weekend bear a visible slogan watermarked on their top right corners reading “Revolution of those who resist.” Last month, in my essay for Mosaic, I attempted to place the evolution of the concept of the Nakba and the Palestinian cause within the history of Arab and Muslim revolutionary thought.

Sep 11, 2023 | mosaicmagazine.com | Hussein Aboubakr

With every rekindling of hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups, world news is flooded with stories about refugee camps, statelessness, and the Nakba—the now-settled term for the Palestinian narrative of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.