Vol. I · Est. MMXXVI · A public trust
A living archivefor Palestine
أرشيف حيّ من أجل فلسطين
The documented record, the poetry, the names, and the land — searchable, citable, and free forever. Every village on the map is a real coordinate, and every one of them opens.
- Curated entries
- 522Curated entries
- Names in the registry
- 72,835Names in the registry
- Villages mapped
- 427Villages mapped
- Poets & poems
- 50Poets & poems
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427 villages depopulated in 1948, at their true coordinates.The full Atlas →
The song of this archive
من سجن عكاFrom Acre Prison
Firqat al-ʿAshiqin — for the three men hanged at Acre, 17 June 1930. Red Tuesday · the song's story
Gaza, by name
غزة، بالاسم
Governments count in tens of thousands. We count one by one — Sidra, Khaled, Hind — and the full documented list of 72,835 names sits in the Registry, searchable.
The villages of 1948
More than four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated. Their names are kept here, and on the Atlas — each at the coordinate where it stood, each opening onto whatever the archive holds about it: who was born there, who testified, what remains.
In memoriam
“If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story.”
Refaat Alareer, Gaza. Read the poem, and remember the medics, journalists and teachers who were killed doing their work.
Enter the memorial
“We have on this earth what makes life worth living: the final days of April, the smell of bread at dawn, a woman’s opinion of men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginnings of love, grass on a stone.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, On This Earth
…and more: the complete index
Take a seat
A majlis is the room where the coffee is poured and the stories are told. Ours is open: sign the community wall, record an elder's story, or simply read carefully — reading is participation too.
“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.”— Ghassan Kanafani