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About

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Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

9 February 1963

Events

Ghassan Kanafani Publishes First Novel, Rijal fi-l-shams (Men in the Sun), in Beirut

Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut

Attempted Assassination of Bassam Abu Sharif in Beirut

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity