Recovering the lost history of Gaza
Decades of conflict and displacement have obliterated the history of one of the world’s oldest human settlements
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William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple’s latest book is The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (Bloomsbury).
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