Palestinian Studies Guide

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Photo and Film Archive for Palestine Refugees' historical images " are the property of all Palestinians as part of their heritage, which includes not only their suffering and loss, but also their achievements,” speaking at the inauguration of the ‘Long Journey’, an exhibition of iconic photographs and films from the UNRWA photo and film archive, at the French Cultural Centre in Gaza City on 10 June 2014, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl said. “UNRWA, as the custodian of this archive, takes full responsibility for its protection and conservation and for making it available to all those who are interested," Mr. Krähenbühl added.

The Nakba Archive is a grassroots oral history collective founded in 2002 to record and commemorate the experiences of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who lived through the 1948 Nakba, ‘catastrophe.’ Over the course of 1947-48, during the creation of the Israeli state, close to one million Palestinians were forcibly expelled and dispossessed of their homes and lands by European Jewish settlers, and around 530 Palestinian villages were destroyed. This collection of over 500 video interviews with first-generation Palestinian refugees from more than 150 Palestinian villages and towns documents this violent history of mass displacement in vivid detail.

In 2009, Columbia University Libraries acquired the papers and library of Edward W. Said, internationally renowned author, educator, public intellectual, and a member of Columbia’s faculty from 1963 to 2003.

Since the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, the Institute for Palestine Studies has chronicled daily political and military events surrounding the Palestine Question. These day-to-day summaries are based on Palestinian, Arab, Israeli and international sources. Prior to August 2018, the chronology was published quarterly in the Journal of Palestine Studies. It is now updated monthly on this platform.