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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Izz al-Din al-Qassam was one of the most influential figures of armed anti-colonial resistance in Mandatory Palestine. Through preaching, ed...
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Yahya Sinwar (1962–2024) was a Palestinian leader from Khan Younis refugee camp, from a family driven out of al-Majdal (Asqalan) in the Nakb...
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“You are criminals. History will record that you lost Palestine.”(Abdel Qader al-Husseini to the Arab League Military Committee in Damascus,...
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The Nakba: Palestine’s Enduring WoundThe Nakba—Arabic for “the Catastrophe”—is the Palestinian name for the mass displacement, uprooting, di...
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Saleh al-Arouri (1966–2024) was a Palestinian political and military leader from the village of Arura in the Ramallah district, deputy head...
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The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour on 2 November 1917 to Lord Rothschild, announcin...
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Samih al-Qasim (1939–2014) was one of the foremost contemporary Palestinian and Arab poets, his name tied to the poetry of revolution and re...
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Majed Abu Sharar (1936–1981) was a Palestinian leader and writer from Dura in the Hebron district, author of the collection The Bitter Bread...
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Less than two months after the assassination of the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abu Ali Mustafa,...
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Abu Ali Mustafa, Mustafa Ali al-Ali al-Zibri (1938–2001), was a son of Arraba in the Jenin district, a co-founder of the Popular Front for t...
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The 1969 Al-Aqsa Mosque FireOn 21 August 1969, the Australian extremist Denis Michael Rohan set fire to the Qibli Mosque within Al-Aqsa Mosq...
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The 1949 Armistice Agreements and the Establishment of the Green Line in PalestineBetween February and July 1949, in the aftermath of the Na...
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On 13 July 1948 occupation forces compelled some 70,000 people of Lydda, Ramla and neighbouring towns to leave their homes within half an ho...
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Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) was a Palestinian novelist, short-story writer, journalist and fighter, a son of Acre and Jaffa uprooted as a b...
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The al-Buraq Uprising of 1929: Jerusalem and Palestinian Resistance Under the British MandateThe al-Buraq Uprising of 1929 was one of the ea...
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The Nabi Musa Uprising of 1920: Causes, Events and AftermathThe events surrounding the Nabi Musa festival in April 1920 marked an important...
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The Martyrs of Red Tuesday: Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, and Atta al-ZirOn Tuesday, June 17, 1930, the British Mandate authorities execute...
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Today marks the 55th anniversary of "Al-Naksa" or "The Setback," also known as the "Six-Day War," during which the Israeli occupation army o...
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