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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Courage
Philippe Sands in conversation with Selma Dabbagh

Philippe Sands' recent book, The Last Colony, unravels the harrowing history of the Chagos Islands and Mauritius, ​where over 2,000 inhabitants were forcibly exiled in 1973 to pave the way for a military base. Through the courageous story of Liseby Elyse, a descendant of slaves, Sands details a decades-long legal battle that culminated in a landmark victory for justice​ and freedom​. In conversation with lawyer and writer Selma Dabbagh.

Philippe Sands is Professor of Law at University College London, and a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard. He is a practising barrister at 11KBW, appears as counsel before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals, and sits as an international arbitrator. He is a regular contributor and commentator on international law and justice in several publications, including the Guardian, Financial Times, and New York Times, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His latest books are East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (2016), The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (2020) and The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy (2022).

Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer and lawyer. Author of Out of It (2011), a novel which is set mainly in Gaza, Selma writes short stories and radio plays, as well as for stage and screen. She is the editor of We Wrote In Symbols; Love and Lust by Arab
Women Writers (2021). A judge for the EBRD Literature Prize 2025, she also
blogs regularly for the London Review of Books.

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