‘A Productive Language’:  On Western Intellectual Paradigms and Refaat al-Areer — Ebb

On the 6th of December 2023, Refaat Al-Areer was assassinated along with his brother, sister, and their children by an Israeli airstrike. Before his murder, Refaat had been contacted by an Israeli intelligence officer threatening to kill him. A literature professor at the Islamic University of Gaza and a refugee living in the al-Shuja’iyya neighbourhood in Gaza, whose brother was martyred during the 2014 aggression, Refaat had not only endured personal sacrifices that Israel imposed on him but also acted as a social leader and a role model for Palestinians and academics worldwide – in life and posthumously.
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