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Best of 2024 … so far: ‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinians have lost their futures

Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from February: Ever since the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948, many have been living in dejection and squalor in camps like Shatila in Beirut. Is this the grim future the people of Gaza could now be facing? By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

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  As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed …

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  From the archive: Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?

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  ‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD

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  From the archive – ‘A merry-go-round of buck-passing’: inside the four-yea…

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  From the KKK to the state house: how neo-Nazi David Duke won office

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  ‘Nobody knows what I know’: how a loyal RSS member abandoned Hindu nationa…

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  Best of 2024 … so far: Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new sc…

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  ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative…

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  Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid?

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  Best of 2024…so far: ‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Br…

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  My family and other Nazis

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  Best of 2024 … so far: Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten geni…

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  Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

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  From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the wo…