Publisher: American University of Beirut (AUB), the Nakba Archive, and the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts (AL-JANA)
Topics:
The Nakba

Palestine Oral History Archive

Aerial view of the crowded Palestinian Ein El-Helwah refugee camp.
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Digital archive of oral history testimonies from Palestinians, particularly survivors of the 1948 Nakba. The audiovisual collections are divided into four themes: “Uprooting” on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine; “Folktales,” which documents Palestinian folklore and culture before 1948; “Ein Al-Hilwat,” featuring interviews of women living in the Ein Al-Hilwah refugee camp; and “Biographies,” oral histories compiled on the lives of Palestinians. AL-JANA and Nakba Archive conducted the interviews, and AUB library archived, indexed, catalogued, digitized, and maintains the collection. Joint project of the American University of Beirut, the Nakba Archive, and the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts (AL-JANA). This source is valuable for research on Palestinian oral histories, the Nakba and Naksa survivors, Palestinian refugees, and Palestinian culture and heritage. Arabic and English.

Featured image depicts the Ein Al-Hilwah refugee camp—located on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon,—in 2009, when many of the oral history interviews for the Ein Al-Hilwat collection were conducted.

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Palestine Oral History Archive (POHA)

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