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01.

Archival Space

Preserving historical records of the Nakba for future generations

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Cultural Hub

Supporting cultural production in Palestinian arts and heritage

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Research Unit

Advancing academic scholarship on Palestine

About Us

The Nakba Memorial Foundation is a charity dedicated to preserving Palestinian arts, culture, and heritage. Our initial objective is to build the ‘Centre for Documentation on the Nakba’ in London to preserve the historical record of the 1948 Nakba in Palestine.

We are motivated in this objective by the need to raise public awareness about the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine as well as the ongoing Nakba, and to provide a space for dialogue, informing activism, and academic research relating to Palestine.

A piece of paper with the words freedom and watermelon

Our Vision

Our immediate goal is to set up the Centre for Documentation on the Nakba. A building will be acquired for this purpose, with all of the documentation digitalised and made available to historians and others who wish to research the events concerned.

An Archive

Initially, we will create a hub for a Nakba archive, which will consist primarily of documents directly detailing the 1948 Nakba from Israeli archives, many of which have since 2016 been reclassified by Israel.

A Cultural Hub

Cultural productions, such as films documenting the nature of the communities which existed prior to the Nakba (and were then destroyed) will be made.

A Research Unit

The centre will encourage academic research and discussion, promoting knowledge on what happened in 1948 and after. Support will be given to ongoing research.

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Watch our presentation – Re-reading the Colonial Archives

by Dr. Rona Sela, animated by Dana Durr

About the Presentation

“Re-reading the Colonial Archives,” created for the Nakba Memorial Foundation by Dr. Rona Sela and animated by Dana Durr, deals with how colonial history is written in Zionist archives. It shows how, before 1948, military Zionist forces gathered materials about the Palestinians for control, supervision, surveillance and occupation, and tracks the settler colonial enterprise after the Nakba. Focusing on visual aspects, it suggests reading the various settler colonial archives in two phases: pre-1948 – the mechanism collecting information about Palestinian villages and inhabitants for occupation and control purposes (the surveys, “village files,” aerial photographs, etc. ); and post-1948 – documents, maps, plans, etc. that describe ethnic cleansing, military regime and planned official mechanism erasing Palestinian villages and their features, while inhabiting them by Israelis. The short presentation describes the role of the archives in the colonial apparatus and exposes their destructive features and violent terminologies. It discusses histories hidden in the colonial archives and charts their capability to return knowledge and contents to indigenous history.

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