Resisting Erasure region. He captures this closeness, and the relevance it has in the British context, in his art, where a whole page of My Papers, My History is dedicated to the 1948 Palestinian exodus. 29 Therefore, Zaraa chooses to speak to a European audience, to open a dialogue with Europe about awareness of Europe’s entanglement in the history of stateless populations. Empathy requires an immersion in the emotions and experiences of the Other, punctuated with reflexivity. Only with a sensitive awareness of history can an empathetic connection of the issue flourish, rather than a distanced one of pity. Figure 8: ‘My Papers, My History’ — 1948(1). 29 My Papers, My History (n 25) 3. See also Figs 7, 8. 325