THE PALESTINIAN HISTORY TAPESTRY

منسوجة التاريخ الفلسطيني

This panel shows school children being taught at home in Gaza after the Israeli occupation forces had cut electricity supplies and closed schools in response to the first Palestinian Intifada …

This panel features products of Gaza – oranges, dates, fish and earthenware pots – and the 12th century Sayed al-Hashim Mosque (Masjid as-Sayed Hashim). It is one of the largest …

In March 1948, the Haganah and other Zionist militias began the forcible expulsion of 250,000 Palestinians, destroying their communities. The British Mandate of Palestine ended on 15 May 1948 and …

In the hope of returning to their homes, Palestinian refugees retain the keys to the houses from which they were forcefully displaced during the Nakba in 1948. The key symbolizes …

Sponsored by: Chalmers Family, UK United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 [53] on 11th December 1948 declared the right of Palestinians, who had be displaced by Zionist forces, to return …

Palestinians refer to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine as the Nakba (Catastrophe), illustrated by these maps. One shows the hundreds of Palestinian villages before 1948, the other map shows  refugee …

This embroidery is based on a painting by the distinguished Palestinian artist Ahmad Canaan, born in 1965 in Tamra. He now lives in Jerusalem, and his painting of the lone …

Under the British Mandate, land purchases and Jewish migration increased. In 1946, Jews owned 7 per cent of the land of Palestine.

Sponsored by: Chalmers Family, UK This panel shows the growth in the population of Palestine between 1918 and 1947, and the gradually increasing proportion of Jewish immigrants, referred to as …

The Arab Revolt in Palestine between 1936 and 1939 was a nationalist uprising against the British administration. The revolt began on 19th April 1936 with a national strike throughout Palestine …