An embroidered image of a Roman floor mosaic, sometimes referred to as ‘The Mona Lisa of Galilee’, uncovered in the excavation of a third century Roman villa in Sepphoris, a …
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A refugee camp, a military watchtower, and the apartheid wall
Palestinian refugees were expelled or fled from their land during and after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Further mass exodus followed the 1967 ‘Six-Day War’, when Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, …
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Palestine becomes UN Non-Member Observer State 2012
On 29 November 2012, the General Assembly of the United Nations accorded Palestine non-Member Observer State status by an overwhelming majority — 138 in favour to 9 against (Canada, Czech …
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Oud player, Jerusalem, c.1859
This image of an oud player is based on a woodcut published by William McClure Thomson in 1860 (The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners …
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Qanun player, Jerusalem, c.1859
This image of a Qanun player is based on a woodcut published by William McClure Thomson in 1860 (The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners …
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UN partition plan, 1947
In 1947 the UN Partition Plan allocated the Jewish population in Palestine 55 per cent of the country, including much of the best agricultural land. Unsurprisingly, this division was rejected …
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Development of the Palestinian History Tapestry Palestinian embroiderers will continue to be commissioned to stitch additional illustrative panels relevant to events and themes, from the Neolithic period to the present. …
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Popular resistance
In his 2011 book Popular Resistance in Palestine, Mazin Qumsiyeh documents the many ways in which the indigenous people of Palestine have resisted oppression – by the Ottoman Empire, the …
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International Women’s Day, 8 Mar 1981
International Women’s Day, in Palestine and the rest of the world, is marked each year in early March. Palestinian women have participated in every stage of the Palestinian struggle for …
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Faris O’deh, Standing Alone, 8 Nov 2000
On 29 October 2000, during the second month of the Second Intifada, a French photojournalist photographed 15-year-old Faris Odeh from the Zeitoun quarter in Gaza City confronting an Israeli tank …
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