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The Magical Allure of Qatamon

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“Sometimes I longed to be able to write a novel and make Jerusalem its locale. I wished I could capture the mood and the spirit of Jerusalem, describe its houses and streets and the lives of its people.” Thursday, June 26, 1947, HalaSakakini Qatamon is a southwestern, predominantly Greek Orthodox suburb of Jerusalem, west of […]
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Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times

From the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive     “Dear Melia… remember me every time you remember Jordan and its struggles, colonialism and its conspiracies, America and its dollars, Israel and its cunning. Remember me every time you remember Jaffa and its oranges, Haifa and its port, Akka and its mountains, Jerusalem and its holy sites, […]
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What Do We Remember When We Remember?

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The idea of writing a family memoir came to me completely by chance. At the time, I was studying to become a travel reporter, to write about faraway places, to explore new countries, to learn about other cultures and other people’s stories. But every time I was writing about something new, something from my past […]
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Walid Daqqa

Philosophy in Captivity
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In the post-Oslo era, reading Palestine through prisoners’ writings resembles reading an electrocardiography report. It does reflect the state of the “national body,” yet it requires a painful confrontation with our collective memory and amnesia. The writings of Walid Daqqa, a “masked philosopher” who is currently spending his 34th year in Zionist captivity, provide an […]
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We Were and Still Are … Here

Testimonies
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ll of Tiberias lived on Hittin’s provisions of oil and wheat. I lived in a two-story house with a big garden, and it was ten minutes away from the mosque. I can’t wait to get back to it. Middle-ground solutions do not satisfy me… Hittin or the grave.” Tawfiq Shabayta was born in 1919 in […]
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One of the Last Gatekeepers of Aboud

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In 1870, Victor Guerin, the French explorer and author of La Palestine, described Aboud as a village surrounded by water wells, valleys with lemon trees, pomegranates, and olives. The “city of flowers” as known by its people, is a breathtaking village located around 30 kilometers northwest of Jerusalem. Inhabited from ancient times, Aboud was part […]
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The Never-Ending Chapter

The following poem is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of Golda Slept Here (2015) by Suad Amiry, in which she traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East. The Never-Ending Chapter My country: […]
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Tales of Amerka

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Of all the travelers passing through the Dabdoub house, the one who most captured Jubrail’s childhood imagination was Ammo Hanna. At that time, the Dabdoub house, known to all as Hosh Dabdoub, was like a travelers’ way station. Perched on the edge of the steep northern slopes of Ras Ifteis, it was the first house […]
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The Journey to a New Life

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“So they wouldn’t send him to die like cannon fodder.” This is the first reason that José Elías Aboid lists to explain why his grandfather left his native Palestine to travel to Chile, the farthest corner of the world. “The situation of the Christians in the Ottoman Turkish Empire was not easy, not only because […]
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On the Palestinian Diaspora Communities in Latin America

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A conservative estimate of the Palestinian diaspora communities in Latin America and the Caribbean would be 725,000 persons in 22 countries, distributed as follows. 1. Argentina 5,000; 2. Chile 300,000; 3. Uruguay 1,000; 4. Paraguay 1,000; 5. Brazil 50,000; 6. Bolivia 18,000; 7. Peru 35,000; 8. Ecuador 10,000; 9. Colombia 65,000; 10. Venezuela 15,000; 11. Panama 2,000; 12. Costa Rica 1,500; 13. Nicaragua 10,000; 14. El Salvador 40,000; 15. Honduras 130,000; 16. Guatemala […]
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Un Mauvais Quart d’heure en Palestine* – extended

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“If you’d been born and raised in Palestine, you’d know that some people are born to suffer. And it never stops, for them. Not for a second. You’d know where real suffering comes from. It’s the same place where love and freedom and pride are born. And it’s the same place where those feelings and […]
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El-Funoun Dance Troupe: An Archive of Forty Years

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Translated by Jamileh Abed In 1979, a group of young and energetic people, driven by the desire to change some traditions but at the same time preserve those that are valuable and beneficial in Palestinian society, decided to form a dance troupe. As with all decisions, the future can be imagined but is never certain, […]
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Message From the editor

The Palestinian cultural scene has witnessed over the past few months a revival of grassroots efforts to recover, collect, and organize Palestinian archival records. After all, in the absence of a state-backed archive, individual archival repositories offer a window into our collective past and a critical tool to document our national narrative. This issue of […] more

Sumud for Now

One can argue that sumud, or steadfast perseverance, is a Palestinian ideological theme and a political strategy par excellence. It is not a new concept, and many have written extensively about it. It’s actually a basic prerequisite to any path that we Palestinians have chosen or will choose in order to achieve our freedom and […] more
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Issue #258 | October 2019
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