The Record
السِّجلWhat is documented, and by whom
The Land
الأرضGeography is the argument made visible
The Voice
الصوتWhat a people made, and go on making
The Majlis
المجلسThe room where the coffee is poured
The current exhibition
Gaza: Siege and Sumud
One of the oldest cities on earth, under the most documented siege of the modern era — and the people who keep teaching, writing, and reporting through it.
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Show me something at randomCurated walks
Each exhibition takes one thread — a year, a tradition, a city — and walks it from first record to last poem, drawing on every collection in the archive.
3 exhibitions · 25 stops in all
The record of the strip
One of the oldest cities on earth, under the most documented siege of the modern era — and the people who keep teaching, writing, and reporting through it.
Cover image: Gaza, central section. Matson Photo Service, Library of Congress (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
A people carried by its poems
From Darwish's identity card to Alareer's kite — how Palestinian poets turned dispossession into some of the most enduring verse of the modern era.
Cover image: The surviving school of al-Birwa, Darwish's village. Wafaa Khatib, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Nakba, documented
A guided walk through the year that remade Palestine: the villages emptied, the survivors who testified, the documents that answer the denials.
Cover image: Deir Yassin before 1949. Institute for Palestine Studies photo collection, from Walid Khalidi's Before Their Diaspora (1984), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
