Index: People, N

• Nada Elia — Author of Chapter 8, “Multiple Jeopardy”, on gender and liberation in Palestine in Awad & bean’s Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
• Nadine Gordimer — South African Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid writer addressed in Barghouti and Eid’s open letter for attending a government-sponsored Israeli writers’ festival, in Barghouti’s account.
• Nagib Mahfouz — The leading Arab novelist, who made the Palestinian emergence the climax of his 1973 novel Love in the Rain, in Said’s account.
• Nahum Goldmann — Zionist leader whose recollections record Weizmann’s refusal to fight for Diaspora rights, and whose account of Edvard Benes’s 1935 warning on a people’s moral stance closes Brenner’s appraisal of the Ha’avara.
• Natan Sharansky — Former Soviet dissident and Prisoner of Zion, Israel’s minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora affairs in 2004, author of the 3D test of anti-Semitism and founder of the Global Forum against Anti-Semitism.
• Nawal El Saadawi — Egyptian feminist who refused Betty Friedan’s attempt to censor Palestine from her 1985 Nairobi conference speech.
• Nelson Mandela — South African anti-apartheid leader whose refusal to renounce armed struggle, solidarity with Palestine and inspiration for Barghouti’s prison letter Falk takes as the model for the legitimacy struggle.
• Nihal El Aasar — Author of “Bread, freedom and an Arab Palestine” in From the River to the Sea, on Egypt, debt as discipline and the Rafah demand.
• Noah Kulwin — Author of “Three new realities for American Power after 7 October” in From the River to the Sea, on Israel as a strategic liability for the US.
• Noam Chomsky — American linguist and writer; 2012 Gaza visitor and book donor to the Edward Said Public Library.
• Norman Bentwich — Palestine’s first attorney general and Carmel Agranat’s uncle, whose offer of a note to the high commissioner Agranat declined as protekstyah, in Lahav’s account.
• Nour Naim — Author in Light in Gaza on artificial intelligence, digital occupation and restoring Palestinian rights.
• Noura Erakat — Author of “In this moment” in From the River to the Sea, a 1 November 2023 speech arguing Israel remains an Occupying Power in Gaza and the campaign is a genocidal completion of the Nakba.
• Nur Masalha — Scholar whose Expulsion of the Palestinians shows, in Pappe’s recap, how deeply rooted the concept of transfer was in Zionist political thought.
• Nuri al-Said — Iraqi statesman who mediated in 1936 and spoke at London in 1939 as a declared friend of Britain.