William F.S. Miles is a professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston and the author of two National Jewish Book Award finalists, Zion in the Desert and Jews of Nigeria.
Squeezed between two realities on the Golan Heights.
“When Arabs hear the word ‘Shoah,’” Khalid tells me, “they black out. It’s almost like a paralysis. They don’t want to hear another word about it. But they—we—need to.”