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Dr. Ghada Karmi in a lecture in the University of Manchester during the Anti-Apartheid week 2008

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Dr. Ghada Karmi

Ghada Karmi (Arabic: غادة كرمي‎, transliteration: Ghādah Karmi) (1939- ) is a Palestinian doctor of medicine, author and academic. She writes frequently on Palestinian issues in newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Nation and Journal of Palestine Studies. She is a fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Arab & Islamic studies at Exeter University ^[1]. She has been writing in favour of the one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1990.

Early life

Karmi was born in Jerusalem, and in her 2002 autobiography, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, she describes growing up in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Katamon, with its mixture of Christian and Muslim Palestinians. Among the family friends and neighbors was Khalil al-Sakakini and his family. With her family she was forced to flee in the 1948 Nakba. The family eventually settled in the neighbourhood of Golders Green, in London, England, where her father, Hasan Sa'id Karmi, worked for the BBC Arabic service.

She studied and became a doctor of medicine, graduating from the University of Bristol in 1964. Initially Karmi practised as a physician, specialising in the health and social conditions of ethnic minorities, migrants and asylum seekers.^[2] Since 1972 she has been politically active for the Palestinian cause and gained a doctorate in the history of Arabic medicine from London University.^[3]

In 1998 she visited her childhood home in Katamon for the first time since 1948.

She is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and a visiting professor at London Metropolitan University. She is also vice-chair of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU)^[4]

She delivered the Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Adelaide, Australia in October, 2007

References

Bibliography, books (partial):

• Al-Hassan, Ahmad Y.; Ghada Karmi & Nizar Namnum (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Symposium for the History of Arabic Science April 5-12, 1976. Volume II. Papers in European Languages. Aleppo: University of Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 1978.
• Karmi, Ghada: Multicultural Health Care: Current Practice and Future Policy in Medical Education ISBN 0-7279-0940-1 British Medical Association, London, 1995,
• Karmi, Ghada (Ed.) with a contribution by Edward Said: Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process? ISBN 0-86372-226-1 Ithaca Press, 1996
  • • Review of Jerusalem Today: What Future for the Peace Process?, by Andrej Kreutz, in Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Fall, 1999.
• Karmi, Ghada: The Palestinian Exodus 1948-1998. Ithaca Press 1999
• Karmi, Ghada: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story ISBN 1-85984-694-7 Verso 2002
  • A country of the mind Guardian, Saturday October 19, 2002 (from Dr Ghada Karmi's memoir, In Search of Fatima)
  • In Search of Fatima Fateful Days in 1948 from Jerusalem Quarterly (from Dr Ghada Karmi's memoir, In Search of Fatima)
    • Review of In Search of Fatima, the Guardian
    • Review of In Search of Fatima by Sara Powell Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2004, page 68
• Karmi, Ghada: Married to another man: Israel's dilemma in Palestine, Pluto press, 2007, ISBN 0745320651
  • Review, by Sonja Karkar, IMEU, Oct 10, 2007
  • Times Literary Supplement Review by Trevor Mostyn Feb.15,2008 p.5

Bibliography, articles by Ghada Karmi (partial list):

• "The 1948 Exodus: A Family Story" in Journal of Palestine Studies 23, no. 2 (Win. 1994): 31-40.
• U.S. Embassy Move to Jerusalem Is Misguided and Illegal January/February 1997, p. 14 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
• A Muslim at the feast The Tablet, 11 April 1998
• Leaving the lemon tree in The Tablet, 25 April 1998
• "After the Nakba: An Experience of Exile in England" in Journal of Palestine Studies 28, no. 3 (Spr. 1999): 52-63.
• Kosovars and Palestinians, The Nation, May 20, 1999 (June 7, 1999 issue)
• With much malice aforethought in Al-Ahram Weekly, 2-8 September 1999
• Denial and the future of peace in Al-Ahram Weekly, 6-12 April 2000
• The future of peace: A Palestinian view 31 October, 2000, BBC
• Fussing over a red herring in Al-Ahram Weekly, 22 February 2001
• A Secular Democratic State in Historic Palestine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Al-Adab (Lebanon), July 2002
• The map must show a way home, The Guardian, June 6 2003
• Edward Said and the politics of dispossession 9 - 15 October 2003 Issue No. 659 Al-Ahram Weekly
• A very Arab obsession 20 - 26 November 2003, Issue No. 665, Al-Ahram Weekly
• Time to remember 22 - 28 January 2004, Issue No. 674, Al-Ahram
• Zionism is Still the Issue, Dissident Voice, February 2, 2004
• Sharon is not the Problem: It's the Nature of Zionist Ideology 20 February 2004, CounterPunch
• By any means necessary, The Guardian, March 18 2004
• Vanishing the Palestinians; The World Looks on Ineffectually July 17 / 18, 2004, CounterPunch
• After Arafat: Sharon is Still Not Ready to Make Peace November 10, 2004, CounterPunch
• Who killed Yasser Arafat? 11 - 17 November 2004 Issue No. 716, Al-Ahram Weekly
• Gaza hysteria 25 August 2005, issue 757, Al-Ahram Weekly
• With no Palestinian state in sight, aid becomes an adjunct to occupation, The Guardian, January 5, 2006
• Where is the global outcry at this continuing cruelty?, The Guardian, May 15, 2006
• These shameful events have humiliated the Arab world, The Guardian, January 2, 2007
• Derek Summerfield, Colin Green, Ghada Karmi, David Halpin, Pauline Cutting, 125 other doctors: Israeli boycotts: gesture politics or a moral imperative?, April 21, 2007, The Guardian
• Ghada Karmi (pro-boycott) Andy Charlwood (against the boycott): Perspectives on the boycott debate, June 11, 2007, The Guardian
• Weapon of the weak, July 13, 2007, Haaretz
• A historic anomaly, July 17, 2007, The Guardian,
• Israel’s cost to the Arabs, September 2008, Le Monde diplomatique
• Intellectual terrorism, October 25, 2007, Guardian: Comment is Free,
• Taking sides in the debate over the Middle East, October 29, 2007, The Guardian
• Colin Green, Asad Khan, Ghada Karmi, Chris Burns-Cox, Martin Birnstingl, David Halpin, Derek Summerfield: Medical ethical violations in Gaza, December 6, 2007, The Lancet
• A one-state solution for Palestinians and Israelis , May 30, 2008, The Christian Science Monitor

External links

• May 15th, 2008, Inteview on Democracy_Now!