Essays on Palestine
We write so the story is not erased.
From Land Day to the Al-Aqsa Flood, from the lives of prisoners to friends of the revolution: articles that document what others want forgotten, and open files that do not expire.
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Gaza is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Pharaohs, Philistines, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, Mamluks...
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Wael Zuaiter (1934–1972) was a Palestinian writer, translator and intellectual from Nablus who lived in Rome from the 1960s, represented Fat...
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Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar, “Abu Youssef” (1930–1973), was a Palestinian leader from the village of Yibna in the Ramla district, whose peopl...
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Kamal Nasser (1924–1973) was a Palestinian poet, journalist and fighter from a well-known Birzeit family, and a former MP for Ramallah in th...
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Kamal Adwan (1935–1973) was a Palestinian leader from the village of Barbara, whose people Zionist militias expelled in 1948, and a founder...
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Dr. Izz al-Din al-Qalaq (1936–1978) was a Palestinian diplomat and writer from Haifa, from which Zionist militias drove his family in 1948,...
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“No, I am not guilty – and if you let me go now, I will go back and fight.”(Sheikh Farhan al-Saadi before the British court, according to hi...
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Saad Sayel, “Abu al-Walid” (1932–1982), was a Palestinian officer from Kafr Qalil near Nablus, a graduate of the world’s leading military ac...
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Hanna Muqbil, “Abu Thaer” (1939–1984), was a Palestinian journalist and writer from the village of Taybeh, a founder of the unified Palestin...
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Abu Iyad, Salah Khalaf (1933–1991), was a son of Jaffa expelled from it as a boy in the Nakba, a co-founder of Fatah, the founder of the Pal...
PortraitsOn 31 March 1948 the Zionist Stern Gang mined the Cairo–Haifa railway near the settlement of Binyamina, south of Haifa, and blew up the expr...
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In late 1938, the British Mandate authorities arrested the journalist Sadhij Nassar of Haifa, making her the first Palestinian woman detaine...
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More than 20,000 students killed, more than a thousand teachers and academics dead, and around 98% of school buildings damaged. Gaza's loss...
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Hind Rajab: Three Hours Waiting for PermissionHind Rajab (2018 – 2024). Photo: courtesy of Ghada Ageel, via Al Jazeera.Her name was Hind Raj...
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Did Palestinians Sell Their Land? The Truth in Numbers and DocumentsFor decades, one sentence has been repeated so often that it sounds simp...
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When we see a house in Gaza after it has been bombed, we usually see the end of the process: a collapsed building, ambulances, the wounded,...
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On November 29, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 67/19, granting Palestine the status of a “non-member observer...
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On May 17, 1939, the British government issued a new policy document on Palestine known as the “White Paper of 1939” or the “MacDonald White...
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