Nakba #9 - Abdallah Shahada
1946 “When I was four, I used to go with my mother to the stream. There we filled our buckets with water. I remember sitting under a tree eating figs. I was never allowed to go to school; instead I ha...
29 Dec 20256min
Nakba #8 - Adnan Abu Odeh
1933 “My father worked in the soap industry. The olive oil season runs from November to March. Father used to work for four months. Then he would rest until the soap had dried and could be wrapped in ...
29 Dec 20251h 19min
Nakba #7 - Rashid al-Haje
“For many years I wished that just once I could return to Palestine—for a single hour—and then I could die. But as a refugee, that was impossible. When I became a Swedish citizen and received a Swedis...
29 Dec 202539min
Nakba #6 - Mousa Ghourab
”My father was a technician and welder; at first he ran a café by the sea. From 1963 to 1988 I had no contact with my parents. They thought I had died. It was hard to get in touch—I didn’t want to sit...
29 Dec 20251h 19min
Nakba #5 - Fatima Yanes
“I was born in Bayt Dajan, a village near Jaffa. In 1936, during the Arab Revolt, the British and the Jews began terrorizing our village at night. They were looking for weapons and resistance fighters...
29 Dec 20251h 3min
Nakba #4 - Yusra Shukr
“Being in flight means starting from zero.”,
28 Dec 202516min
Nakba #3 - Akram Muhammad ‘Abdalrazzaq ‘Ayyash
“Falastin is like the blood in my body. Haifa is like the air I breathe. They live within me”,
28 Dec 202516min
Nakba #2 - Mohammed Hourani
”The jews started shooting. My dad took us to a cave in southern Safad. In the Jewish quarters there was a high building. They were shooting with a single shot rifle. Me and my cousin was laying flat ...
28 Dec 20251h 8min
