Palestinian heritage

In the winter of 1947, just months before the Nakba, a young Palestinian shepherd from the Ta'amireh Bedouin was searching for a stray goat among the...

Gaza is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Pharaohs, Philistines, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, Mamluks and Ottoma...

In British supermarkets you can buy oranges labelled "Jaffa" that were grown in Peru or South Africa. As for Jaffa itself, the city that gave the oran...

Every October, Palestinian families head out to the olive groves: the grandfather spreads tarpaulins under the tree, the children climb the branches,...

On American supermarket shelves, the leading tub of hummus is called "Sabra," the nickname for a Jew born in Israel. On restaurant menus around the wo...

When people talk about the theft of Palestinian heritage, some assume it is exaggeration or a political slogan. But the facts are documented with date...

In folk dance clubs around the world, from California to Berlin, enthusiasts learn dances with names like "Debka Gilboa" and "Debka Abud," and are tol...

In Hebron stands a centuries-old mosque that Muslims call al-Haram al-Ibrahimi, the Ibrahimi Mosque. At the northern entrance to Bethlehem stands anot...

In September 1982, as forces of the Israeli occupation overran West Beirut, three military trucks were loaded outside a building on Hamra Street. They...

After the Nakba of 1948, the Zionist occupation did not stop at expelling some 750,000 Palestinians and destroying hundreds of villages. It began a se...

In the spring of 1948, as Zionist militias drove Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, teams of librarians entered the emptied...

In December 2021, UNESCO inscribed the art of embroidery in Palestine on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It w...

Palestine’s Place Names: Memory, Maps, and the Politics of RenamingPalestine’s Place Names: Memory, Maps, and the Politics of RenamingHow do the names...