HISTORICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY: The house in 15 Dustai St.
05/2017
The exhibition Old Qatamon: Live Archive is hosted in a new building erected on the property of an original Palestinian house whose story is interweaved with the story of the neighborhood. The construction of the neighborhood began in the 1920s; it stretches east of St. Simeon Monastery, which probably gave it its name: in Greek, kata tōi monast...
HISTORICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY: The house in Nehorai St.
05/2017
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HISTORICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY: The house in 15 Hildesheimer St.
05/2017
The story of the house exhibiting the installation Qatamon: Annotated Map is interweaved with the story of the neighborhood, which begins in the 1920s. The neighborhood stretches east of St. Simeon Monastery, which probably gave it its name: in Greek, kata tōi monastēriōi means “under the monastery”. After the First World War, the Gr...
Letter to Bayt Nattif by Erik Ader
Author: Erik Ader 11/2016
In June 1936, the Dutch Protestant Reverend Bastiaan Jan Ader got on his bike to cycle to the Holy Land, a daring undertaking in those days.
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Articles and research on the Zionist/Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Transitional Justice perspective
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Researchers around the world show interest in the unique aspects of settler colonialism and the relevancy of the transitional Justice paradigm to the Zionist-Palestinian context.
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For Arabs, plans for Jaffa's preservation mean expulsion through gentrification
Author: Naama Riba 23/10/2016
A conservation program to preserve the historic well houses of Jaffa and south Tel Aviv threatens to push Arabs out of the area, argue its critics.
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New Growth in Ancestral Lands: Agricultural Development in Palestine, 1880-1948
Author: William Gray Dossett 2016
Perhaps Israel’s most well known national myth claims that, after finding Palestine a desolate wasteland, early Jewish settlers “made the desert bloom.
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The Jewish National Fund as a Colonial Entity
Author: The Nakba Files Editors 31/08/2016
Adalah — along with the National Committee of Arab Local Authorities, the Arab Center for Alternative Planning, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and Bimkom–Planners for Human Rights — filed a petition before Israel’s Supreme Court on 18 August 2016 challenging the role of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in gover...
