Nakba and Holocaust as cultural traumas

Holocaust and Nakba are defining historical events for respectively Israeli and Palestinian societies. In this lecture, Nadim Khoury will explore how these traumas have shaped Israeli and Palestinian national narratives and how they have functioned as competing cultural traumas.

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He will trace their trajectories since 1948 and explore how they are intertwined and how the tensions between them are shaping the path forward in Israeli and Palestinian lives.

What meaning, he asks, does the entanglement of the Holocaust and the Nakba gain in the shadow of October 7 and the war on Gaza?

Nadim Khoury is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Philosophy, and International Studies, University of Inland Norway. He teaches courses in the history of political thought and international relations.

Conversation facilitated by Steinar Ims, Head of Education at The Norwegian Holocaust Center, and Claudia Lenz, researcher at The Norwegian Holocaust Center.

The event is part of the series In the Shadow of War - the Way Forward, which is a collaboration between The Norwegian Holocaust Center and the University of Oslo.

Admission is free, but you must register.

A recording of the event is now available: https://youtu.be/0dnlgI8d7y0

 

 

 

Publisert 27. feb. 2026 13:10 - Sist endret 8. mai 2026 15:30

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