The curated walks
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Each exhibition takes one thread — a year, a village, a craft, a song — and walks it from first record to last poem, drawing on every collection in the archive. Enter, and go stop by stop.
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
Acre, 1930, and the movement that dates itself from the gallows
Three men hanged at Acre prison in June 1930, the funeral song that carried their names out of the yard, and the line Palestinian prisoners still draw from that morning to their own cells.
Cover image: Acre from the bay, c. 1900–1920. Matson Photo Service, Library of Congress (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
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
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
The Galilee was the last part of Palestine to fall in 1948 and the part emptied most quickly. A walk through the Safad, Acre, Nazareth and Tiberias districts — and then to the people who never left, and were made absent anyway.
Cover image: Saffuriyya, the largest village of the Nazareth district, before 1948. Matson Photo Service, Library of Congress (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
Before Gaza was a strip it was a district: grain villages, a weaving town, orchards along the coast road. This walk names the places that were emptied into it, and the camps their people built on top of themselves.
Cover image: Khan Younis refugee camp, 1955. UNRWA photo (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
A union founded in Jerusalem in July 1965, the first woman in Fatah, a parliamentarian held in a two-metre cell — and the photographer who was already recording Palestinian life two decades before the Nakba.
Cover image: Karimeh Abbud, the first woman photographer in Palestine (1893–1940). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Two Palestinian practices sit on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; neither of them needed the certificate. A walk through the things Palestinians make, and the people who kept the record of how.
Cover image: Mother-of-pearl workers, Bethlehem. Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection, Library of Congress (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
An exhibition here is what it is in a museum: a curated route through holdings that already stand on their own. Every stop is a full record elsewhere in the archive — a place, a poem, a dated event — and each keeps its own sources. The exhibition only supplies the order and the thread.
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