The Archives of Palestine

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

مؤسسة الضمير لرعاية الأسير وحقوق الإنسان

The standing record of Palestinian political imprisonment since 1991: detainee statistics, case files, fact sheets on administrative detention and the military court system, and the legal aid casework that produces the evidence.

• A Documentation and Research Unit that monitors detention conditions through regular prison visits and compiles detailed detainee statistics
• Fact sheets and thematic publications on administrative detention, military courts, torture, child detention and women prisoners
• Legal Aid, Advocacy and Training units whose casework and UN submissions are published alongside the statistics

Al-Haq

الحق

Documenting the occupation from Ramallah since 1979: field accounts, fieldwork and monthly reports, legal position papers organised by forum, a publications library, and a forensic architecture investigations unit.

• Documentation output separated into From the Field, fieldwork reports, monthly reports and annual reports
• The Forensic Architecture Investigations (FAI) unit — spatial and open-source reconstruction of incidents, with its own exhibitions
• Accountability files organised by forum: the ICJ, the ICC, universal jurisdiction, corporate accountability, EU and UN advocacy

BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights

بديل - المركز الفلسطيني لمصادر حقوق المواطنة واللاجئين

The reference source on Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons since 1998: the recurring worldwide survey that produces the standing global figures, position papers on forcible transfer and population policy, annual reports back to 1999, and a public library.

• The recurring survey of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide — the standing global figures
• Position papers on forcible transfer, evacuation orders, the apartheid spatial regime and colonial complicity, in multiple languages
• Annual reports published continuously since 1999, plus a public library and legal advocacy files

Birzeit University Digital Palestinian Archive

الأرشيف الفلسطيني الرقمي – جامعة بيرزيت

A national university's programme to digitise a century of Palestinian documents — organisational collections, private family papers and audiovisual material from Ottoman times to the present — alongside FADA, the university's institutional repository.

• Launched in 2011 to preserve written and audiovisual records donated by individuals, families and popular organizations
• Covers Ottoman times to the present, excluding Palestinian Authority documents produced since 1994
• Sub-pages for Mission and Vision, Archives and Records, Operations and Activities, and the Palestine Archive Website

PalQuest — The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question

الموسوعة التفاعلية للقضية الفلسطينية

A fully bilingual reference platform built on a detailed chronology of modern Palestine, with signed scholarly essays, biographies, hundreds of destroyed villages, and a documents section carrying full texts that are hard to find anywhere else in English.

• Full English texts of Palestinian political speeches and documents — including Haydar Abd al-Shafi's complete Madrid address of 31 October 1991
• Thematic chronologies that isolate a single thread: PLO history, UN resolutions, the wars, the negotiating rounds
• Biographies of Palestinian intellectuals, artists, activists, combatants and politicians from the late nineteenth century onwards

Tadamun — The International Institution for Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners

الهيئة الدولية للتضامن مع الأسرى الفلسطينيين - تضامن

Monthly statistical human rights reports on the conditions of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, alongside video testimonies, a prisoners' chronology, infographics and daily media briefings — mostly in Arabic.

• Monthly statistical human rights reports on the condition of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, issued in Arabic and English
• Video testimonies, a chronology of the prisoners' movement, infographics and daily media briefings
• Thematic sections on starvation of prisoners, use as human shields, enforced disappearance, detained journalists, prisons after 7 October, and exchange deals

The Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research

An Israeli research institute that prises documents out of Israeli state archives and publishes them: declassified files on 1948, the Kafr Qasim massacre trial, military rule over Palestinian citizens, and the annual measurement of how little of the archive is open at all.

• The Kafr Qasim Massacre Document Library — thousands of pages of digitised primary sources on the massacre and the trial
• Annual monitoring of archival access: Akevot's most recent finding is that only 4.06% of files in the major government archives are open to the public
• Document collections on 1948 war crimes protocols, military rule, the Negev Bedouin Siyag plan and the Golan Heights

The Institute for Palestine Studies

مؤسسة الدراسات الفلسطينية

Founded in 1963: a four-storey research library in Beirut of more than 79,000 volumes, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and a growing bank of open digital projects including the Palestine Chronology.

• The Constantine Zurayk Library — over 79,000 volumes in Arabic, English, French and Hebrew, including British Mandate publications and World Zionist Congress volumes
• The Palestine Chronology: day-by-day summaries of events from 1982 to the present, compiled from Palestinian, Arab, Israeli and international sources
• Open digital projects including the Shireen Abu Akleh platform on attacks against journalists and a database on the destruction of Gaza's health sector

The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

أرشيف المتحف الفلسطيني الرقمي

Roughly 150,000 digitised items — identity papers, letters, diaries, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films and audio — entrusted by Palestinian families and institutions, arranged as named personal collections rather than as a state record.

• Nearly 150,000 objects searchable in Arabic and English, browsable by collection, topic, entity, location and date
• Named family and institutional collections: the Palestine Red Crescent Society, the General Union of Palestinian Women, Hanna Nakkara, the al-Fajr newspaper, Ramallah Friends School
• Deliberately a history from below — the archive's own framing is the ordinary Palestinian 'who might be overlooked or distanced by history'

UNISPAL — The Question of Palestine Documents Collection

The United Nations' own document collection on the question of Palestine: General Assembly, Security Council, Human Rights Council and ECOSOC resolutions, ICJ material, and the transmitted texts of Palestinian documents that exist nowhere else in authoritative English.

• Resolutions indexed by organ: General Assembly, Security Council, Human Rights Council, Economic and Social Council
• Transmitted Palestinian documents, including the full text of the 1988 Declaration of Independence and the PNC Political Communiqué
• The International Court of Justice files on Palestine and the study on the legality of the Israeli occupation

PalestineRemembered.com

فلسطين في الذاكرة

Over 700 filmed Nakba oral history interviews and more than 3,500 hours of recording, organised village by village across the eighteen districts of Mandate Palestine, with photographs, maps and satellite placemarks for the destroyed towns.

• More than 700 oral history interviews, over 3,500 hours of recording, viewable online
• Town and village pages grouped by the eighteen Mandate districts, from Acre to Tulkarm
• Over 6,000 Google Earth placemarks identifying destroyed towns, West Bank and Gaza towns, and refugee camps

The Nakba Archive

أرشيف النكبة

Over 500 video interviews with first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, from more than 150 villages and towns, recorded by refugees from the camps themselves; the Arabic originals are catalogued through the Palestinian Oral History Archive at AUB.

• More than 500 filmed interviews with first-generation refugees, from over 150 Palestinian villages and towns
• Recorded by refugees living in the camps in Lebanon, not by outside researchers
• Arabic interviews searchable through the Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA) database; subtitled English excerpts are being added to the Archive's own site

The Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA)

Around 1,000 hours of catalogued, indexed testimony with first-generation Palestinians in Lebanon — the Nakba, life in pre-1948 Palestine, folktales and songs, and the women of Ein el-Helwe after the camp's destruction in 1982.

• Roughly 1,000 hours of testimony, indexed and searchable by interviewee, place of origin, subject and landmark
• Five distinct collections, including the Nakba collection and al-Jana's biographies, folktales and Ein el-Hilwe material
• An interactive map interface and a controlled thesaurus; content licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 unless otherwise stated

Zochrot

زوخروت

An Israeli organisation that documents the Nakba in Hebrew for a Hebrew-reading public: an interactive Nakba map of destroyed localities, a testimonies archive, a refugee camp map, a historical map archive, and the iReturn app.

• The Nakba Map — a locality-by-locality index of destroyed Palestinian villages and towns, from 'Ajjur to Zir'in, in Hebrew, Arabic and English
• A testimonies archive filterable by nationality, generation, medium and village of origin, holding both Palestinian and Israeli accounts
• The 'Remembering' booklet series, a refugee camp map, a historical maps archive, and a displacement and occupation calendar

The Arab Image Foundation

المؤسسة العربية للصورة

Approximately 500,000 photographic objects dating back to 1860, from South West Asia, North Africa and their diasporas — including Palestinian material — held in Beirut by an artist-founded association that collects, preserves, digitises and researches them.

• Around 500,000 photographic objects dating from 1860, by anonymous, amateur and professional photographers
• Named collections including stereographs of Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria from the end of the nineteenth century
• Founded in 1997 by the photographers Fouad Elkoury and Samer Mohdad and the artist Akram Zaatari

The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Over 22,000 glass and film negatives and transparencies made by the American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem and its successor firm, the majority depicting Palestine between 1898 and 1946 — with no known restrictions on publication.

• Over 22,000 negatives and transparencies plus over 1,000 prints and eleven albums; the majority depict Palestine 1898–1946
• Rights advisory: 'No known restrictions on publication' — high-resolution files download directly
• Browsable by 664 subject headings, 62 formats and 8 creator names

The UNRWA Photo and Film Archive

More than 430,000 negatives, 10,000 prints, 85,000 slides, 75 films and 730 videocassettes recording Palestine refugee life from 1948 onward — inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2009.

• 430,000 negatives, 10,000 prints, 85,000 slides, 75 films and 730 videocassettes
• Inscribed by UNESCO in the Memory of the World register in 2009
• Covers the 1948 expulsion, the founding of the camps in the 1950s, the second flight of 1967, the Lebanon wars, and the intifadas

Palestine Open Maps

British Mandate Survey of Palestine map sheets, stitched into seamless navigable layers and joined to population data for over 2,000 places — a snapshot of the human geography of Palestine immediately before the Nakba, downloadable sheet by sheet.

• Historical base layers from the 1870s to the 1950s, including 1940s Survey of Palestine sheets at scales up to 1:20,000
• Population data on over 2,000 places, past and present, joined to the 1945 Village Statistics
• Split-screen past-and-present comparison, 3D topography, feature overlay on present-day maps, and download of individual sheets

The B'Tselem Video Archive

Filmed documentation of the occupation gathered since 1989 and organised by channel — Gaza, East Jerusalem, minors, settler violence, Israeli forces — alongside statistics, testimonies, position papers and reports.

• Video organised into standing channels: Gaza, East Jerusalem, Minors, Israeli forces, Settler Violence = State Violence
• Longer video projects including 'East Jerusalem: 6 Voices', 'Gaza: An Inside Look' and 'My Own Private Gaza'
• Sits alongside B'Tselem's statistical databases, testimony collection and reports, published in Hebrew, Arabic and English

The Palestine Film Institute

An independent Palestinian-led body founded in 2019 by film workers: a directory of Palestinian films and filmmakers, a streaming platform, a production fund, and a preservation programme built around narrative sovereignty.

• The Palestine Film Directory — an index of Palestinian films and the people who make them
• The Palestine Film Platform, a curated streaming season with a film of the week
• The Palestine Film Fund and the Palestine Film Hub, which coordinates Palestinian presence at Cannes, IDFA, Berlinale, Sheffield, TIFF and CPH:DOX

The Palestine Poster Project Archives

More than 24,000 Palestine posters by over 5,000 artists, each translated and interpreted — the largest such archive in the world, and the only one that collects the Zionist and Israeli wellspring alongside the Palestinian one.

• 24,145 posters, 5,410 artists and 1,071 special collections in the last capture this archive could read (27 September 2025); the live site refuses automated requests
• Organised into four 'wellsprings': Arab and Muslim, international, Palestinian nationalist, and Zionist/Israeli
• A 1,600-poster subset — the Liberation Graphics Collection of Palestine Posters — is the part put forward for UNESCO's Memory of the World register, on the archive's own account

Forensic Architecture

A research agency that reconstructs incidents of state violence in navigable 3D models from open-source material; its Palestine investigations are published in full, with method, evidence and forum stated for each.

• 'A Cartography of Genocide' — cumulative analysis of Israel's conduct in Gaza since October 2023, published as a web platform and report
• Investigations filterable by methodology: geolocation, photogrammetry, shadow analysis, cartographic regression, situated testimony, fluid dynamics
• Each investigation records date of incident, location, forum (court, UN body, parliamentary inquiry, media) and commissioning partner

Visualizing Palestine

A data-storytelling studio whose visual library is freely reusable: sourced infographics on land, water, prisoners, movement restrictions and casualties, produced through a documented research-to-design process.

• A free visual library of data-driven graphics, made for reuse by educators and movement organisations
• A documented process wheel — research, story conceptualisation, design, outreach — with sources published alongside each visual
• The team behind Palestine Open Maps, which grew out of its 2018 Impact Data Lab workshop

Darat al Funun — The Khalid Shoman Foundation

دارة الفنون - مؤسسة خالد شومان

A home for the arts of the Arab world in Amman since 1988: the Khalid Shoman Collection of over 140 artists, an art library open for research, a video archive, and a documented record of every exhibition, talk and screening it has held.

• The Khalid Shoman Collection — works by over 140 artists across a wide range of media
• An archive of past exhibitions, workshops, talks, film screenings and performances, plus a video archive
• A research library, a PhD fellowship on art in the Arab world, and artist residencies

Eltaher.org — The Mohamed Ali Eltaher Archive

أرشيف محمد علي الطاهر

The surviving papers, newspapers, books, correspondence and photographs of the Palestinian journalist Mohamed Ali Eltaher, covering Near Eastern and North African politics from 1912 to 1974 — a single exile's archive, published by his family.

• Eight books and decades of articles and interviews from Arab and diaspora newspapers and periodicals
• Correspondence, documents and photographs organised by country: Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
• Trilingual site in Arabic, English and French; all of Eltaher's own writing is in Arabic