1948 Revisited
Professor Ilan Pappe's ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’ will most certainly be classified as one of the most painstakingly researched books on the Israel-Palestine question to emerge to date. This work has been fittingly dedicated by the author to the hundreds of thousands of victims of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948. Pappe was born in Haifa (Israel) in 1954. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1984. Having taught for over two decades at the University of Haifa in Israel, he is now on the faculty list of the University of Exeter in the UK. Pappe is hardly a stranger to the pages of this journal, having been a regular contributor to it (as well as serving on its editorial board), since its