Shahrazad Odeh

May 2, 2024 | mitchellplitnick.substack.com | Ryan Grim |Shahrazad Odeh |Hazem Fahmy |Shatha Abdulsamad. Al-Shabaka

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Apr 30, 2024 | 972mag.com | Amjad Iraqi |Shahrazad Odeh

On April 18, Israeli police arrested Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a renowned Palestinian scholar and my former academic supervisor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They kept her in detention overnight — in conditions designed to break her spirit, like other Palestinian political prisoners — before a court ordered her release, rejecting the police’s demand to extend her time behind bars.