Tag Archives: 1948

A New Generation of Returnees: The Challenges in Memory Projects with Refugee Youth in Lebanon

By Moa'taz Dajani | Published: March 3, 2010
“What use is it to remember now?” These were the words of some Palestinian elders, as a response to our field team questions regarding the recalling of the expulsions of 1948, a project that AL-JANA undertook in the year 1998, the 50th since the “Uprooting”. “Nobody teaches us history” This is the comment made by a group of [...]
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Our Country Why Have You Fortaken Us – Ya baldna Leish Hajartina

By admin | Published: April 1, 2003
Ya baldna Leish Hajartina “our country why have you fortaken us” focused on part on answering the questions that we collected from children and youth, (the 4th generation of refugee children), about the uprooting of 1948.
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Sukar Yafa

By admin | Published: February 1, 2002
“I dreamt that my grandmother held me by the hand and flew with me to Palestine.” She looked down and said “This is our village my grandson.” I descended and she continued her flight.
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Al-Jana Al-Arabi # 7, October 1999

By admin | Published: October 17, 1999
File Cultural Life in Palestine before the Uprooting Interviews Memories of Jaffa: An interview with the poet Mahmoud el-Hout. Establishing a Palestinian film archive: Dialogue with filmmaker Qais-al-Zubaydi. Researching the memory of space: An interview wtih Dr. Mahmoud ‘Issa From our archives Oral testimonies and songs from 1948 Palestine. Article Oral history is an activist project: “Concrete details” and the “human factor”. The young journalists’ [...]
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