Nakba: Historical Trauma, Collective Memory, and Mechanisms of Psychosocial Health After Forced Displacement
The term “Nakba” is most widely used to describe the large-scale displacement of Palestinians during the 1940s and 1950s, including forced evacuation and expulsion. While not a medical diagnosis, forced displacement at this scale is clinically relevant because it constitutes a high-intensity population-level trauma exposure. In modern psychosocial medicine, such events are understood through trauma… Read More »