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Lyn Julius

November 21, 2025, 8:13 pm
Documentary to disco: Harif’s 20th anniversary bathes JW3 in colour
An evening to mark the departures and expulsions of Jews from Arab lands and Iran ‘shows how daft the white colonial settler’ thing is
By Beatrice Sayers
Eastern Beats play Dima Dima by Yasser Jradi, an anthem of the 2011 revolution in Tunisia, at the JW3 event. Photo: Laurence Julius
December 4, 2023, 5:27 pm
‘Hamas wants to finish the job’: event recalls expulsion of Jews from Middle East
Evening to raise awareness of the history and heritage of Jews from Arab countries and from Iran this year took on a particular resonance
By Beatrice Sayers
At the Shepheard hotel, Cairo, in 1923 (via Samir Mahfouz, Egyptian Jews Facebook)
February 2, 2022, 9:08 am
OPINION: This refugee’s heart still belongs in Egypt
Lyn Julius recalls the story of Viviane Bowell, whose life was turned upside down in 1956 after the Suez crisis
By Lyn Julius
Egyptian-Jewish refugees boarding a ship
November 18, 2021, 8:41 am
OPINION: Remembering the ‘Second Exodus’ after Suez
Lyn Julius of Harif remembers the 25,000 Jews kicked out of Egypt by president Nasser following the Suez crisis
By Lyn Julius
The Farhud victims were buried in a mass grave
May 24, 2021, 11:25 am
OPINION: Remembering the Farhud, 80 years ago
Lyn Julius of Harif reflects on a pogrom against Iraq's Jews, which signalled the beginning of the end for its historic community
By Lyn Julius
JFS School
June 11, 2020, 2:13 pm
OPINION: Don’t force Jews into facile categories
After hundreds of ex-JFS students call on the school to 'decolonise the curriculum', Lyn Julius warns of reducing history to simplistic categories of 'white' bad, 'black' good.
By Lyn Julius
January 20, 2020, 1:30 pm
OPINION: What the world’s leaders won’t learn at Yad Vashem
Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Lyn Julius reflects on other historical injustices and their relevance for today
By Lyn Julius
Demonstration in Iran during the revolution, with protesters holding up placards featuring the Ayatollah (Wikipedia/ GNU Free Documentation License/Author: Unknown via Jewish News)
November 15, 2019, 11:12 am
OPINION: 40 years since Victoria and 80,000 others fled Iran
Lyn Julius tell the story of an 80-year-old woman who fled to Britain after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 to mark the event's 40th anniversary
By Lyn Julius
June 6, 2019, 10:17 am
OPINION: Jews in Arab lands paid price for Six Day War victory
Lyn Julius of Harif reflects on the impact of Israel's remarkable 1967 victory on Mizrachi Jews across the Middle East
By Lyn Julius
Israeli spy legend Eli Cohen.
April 2, 2019, 9:38 am
OPINION: ‘Spies of no country’ can explain this country
Lyn Julius reflects on a new book which looks at 'The Three Moons' kiosk in Beirut, where Israeli spies gathered and transmitted intelligence
By Lyn Julius
Hakham Ezra Dangoor, chief rabbi of Baghdad, pictured with his family in 1910. (Jewish News)
November 23, 2018, 11:29 am
OPINION: ‘Right of return’ cry is muted by full story  
Lyn Julius reflects on the annual remembrance for Jews who were expelled from Arab and North African countries
By Lyn Julius
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas
March 9, 2018, 12:10 pm
OPINION: The playing field is too uneven for peace-building
Author Lyn Julius says no amount of ivory-tower thinking can disguise the wide cultural gulf between parties in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
By Lyn Julius
November 30, 2017, 10:40 am
OPINION: Marking a sad landmark in this year of anniversaries
Lyn Julius writes on the annual day to remember the fate of more than 850,000 Jews who were made refugees from the Arab world in the 20th century.
By Lyn Julius
November 17, 2017, 11:48 am
OPINION: Celebrate and commemorate impact on Jews from Arab countries
Lyn Julias writes about Jewish Refugee Week which focuses on Jews kicked out of Arab countries in the 20th century
By Lyn Julius
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