🧵Fifty years ago today, Fouad Nassar, a prominent Palestinian communist leader and figure in the political and labor movements during the British Mandate, passed away. www.palquest.org/en/biography...

Fouad Nassar - Revolutionaries and Activists (1914 - 1976)

Biography - Fouad Nassar, son of Nehme Nassar, was born on 28 November 1914 in the Syrian town of Bludan to Palestinian parents who had moved there from their...

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🧵 During August 2026, as the genocide in Gaza continued, Israel remained unaccounted for ongoing bombings, shootings, restrictions on humanitarian aid, and efforts to reshape the Strip The Palestine Chronology has been updated to cover these developments: chronology.palestine-studies.org

This semester, Haya is taking us through her campus📚 Studying Palestine? Researching it? Writing about it? Bring us to campus! 📩 Subscribe to our free newsletter for reading lists, calls for writers, and new research from IPS: bit.ly/newsletterIPS #BackToSchoolWithIPS

🧵Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi was a prominent Palestinian educator and intellectual who played a major role in developing education in Palestine during the British Mandate.

Alex Winder’s article “Abu Jilda in Fact and Fiction” delves into the enigmatic figure of Abu Jilda, a notorious outlaw during the early years of British colonial rule in Palestine. Read the full piece on Jerusalem Quarterly: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Mariam Bagdady examines how Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour after he called for a “free Palestine” onstage and following pressure from venue owners, including Robert Kraft. Read the full article on Palestine Square below: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

🧵Thirty years ago, on 24 September 1996, Israel opened a new entrance to the Western Wall Tunnel in the Old City of Jerusalem, running from the Western Wall towards the Via Dolorosa alongside the Haram al-Sharif compound: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...

"I would see paramedics leave in an ambulance and return dead." Since March, at least 135 healthcare workers in Lebanon have been killed—many in deliberate double-tap strikes on rescue teams. Nourhan Kazak reports for Palestine Square: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

Psst… we know you want to intern with us. 👀 The intern panel at our #BackToSchoolWithIPS orientation is a rapid-fire look at what interning at the Institute for Palestine Studies is actually like + how you can apply this fall semester! 📅 Wednesday, Sept 23 | 2pm ET 🔗 Register bit.ly/IPSOrientation

🎬 Palestinian cinema has roots in the earliest history of filmmaking: the first known motion-picture footage was shot in Jaffa and Jerusalem in 1897. After the Nakba, Palestinian filmmaking developed in exile and underwent a breakthrough with the emergence of the revolutionary movement in the 1960s.

Scholarship matters. So does how you use it. How do you bring published research into organizing and political education? Sereen Haddad & Haitham Khraishi are here to answer during our #BackToSchoolWithIPS orientation on Wedneday. Built for students. Free for all. Register: bit.ly/IPSOrientation

Ready to write your first paper? 📝 Join us Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 2pm ET for Track 2 of #BackToSchoolWithIPS orientation! Built for students, free for all. Free registration: bit.ly/IPSOrientation

80 years ago today, Haifa railway station was bombed by Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary group, as part of its campaign against British infrastructure in Palestine. A 1946 #PalQuest photograph captures the station during the final years of the British Mandate: www.palquest.org/en/media/953...

Haifa Railroad Station - 20 September 1946 (Photograph)

Historical Media - 20 September 1946 - Imperial War Museum collection - Haifa - The railroad station at Haifa blown up by the Irgun . This was among the first of 67 Irgun attacks on the railway ...

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You don't need a byline to write for us. Palestine Square publishes student writing. On Sept. 23, our editors Laura Albast & Laila AlQaddumi, and contributors Marah Abdel Jaber and Yezen Saadah walk through how the process actually goes. Free to attend: bit.ly/IPSOrientation #BackToSchoolWithIPS

In this firsthand account of the Sabra and Shatila massacre 44 years ago, Zakaria al-Shaikh offers a glimpse of what it was like to witness one of the most harrowing episodes of the Lebanese Civil War. www.palestine-studies.org/sites/defaul...

🧵 A new Biography from #PalQuest explores the life and legacy of Mustafa al-Kurd. Born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1945, al-Kurd became one of Palestine’s leading musicians and cultural figures: www.palquest.org/en/biography...

Mustafa al-Kurd - Artists (1945 - 2024)

Biography - Mustafa al-Kurd was born on 20 December 1945 in the Old City of Jerusalem to Darwish al-Kurd and Intisar al-Shawwa. His father owned a shop that sold...

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(1/3) In this article, published in Jerusalem Quarterly, postdoctoral fellow at New York University, Elizabeth Bentley, presents a rhetorical historiography of the last Palestinian crocodile, tracing its circulation across colonial zoological literatures between 1870 and 1935.

Decades of stacking the record on Palestine. Sijil, our monthly membership, keeps it growing. Join Sijil, build the future: sijil.palestine-studies.org

Amanda Batarseh argues that the struggle is not merely over narration or the right to narrate, but more fundamentally over the production and recognition of knowledge itself. Read the open-access article in the Journal of Palestine Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0377...

An Israeli reservist soldier is suing Toronto-based independent magazine The Grind for $1.3 million over its reporting on events featuring Israeli soldiers. The Grind has stood by its reporting. Yara El Murr for Palestine Square: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

Georgios Samaras traces the shifts in far-right Greek political rhetoric on Jews, Israel, and Palestine. Rather than rupture, Samaras argues that these developments reveal continuity: old prejudices reorganized through new alliances, with Gaza as catalyst and alibi. doi.org/10.1080/0377...

We're proud to support Aquí Seguimos, an exhibition tracing historical ties between Mexico & Palestine, on view in Baltimore. Join us Oct. 1 for an artist talk with Palestinian playwright Ismail Khalidi & Mexican multimedia artist Edgar Reyes. RSVP at la-sonora.com/events/aqu-s...

Under what law does asking where public money goes get you arrested? Noura Erakat was escorted out a public budget hearing in Palm Beach County in handcuffs yesterday. Nourhan Kazak reports: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

🧵Today we remember the 44th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacres. Between 16–18 September 1982, Israeli forces encircled Beirut’s Sabra neighborhood and Shatila refugee camp, established observation posts overlooking the area, and facilitated the entry of Lebanese Phalangist forces.

🧵Sulafa Hijjawi, Palestinian poet, scholar, and militant activist, passed away five years ago today. Born in Nablus in 1934, she became known for her literary translations of Palestinian resistance poetry, bringing Palestinian voices to English-speaking audiences: www.palquest.org/en/biography...

Sulafa Hijjawi - Revolutionaries and Activists (1934 - 2021)

Biography - Sulafa Hijjawi, daughter of Hassan Hijjawi, was born in Nablus. It is said that the poet Ibrahim Tuqan was the one who named her. She married the...

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Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

Her university withheld her degree last year because she spoke up for Palestine. Now Sereen is at IPS, and we want to invite you to go #BackToSchoolWithIPS. Events, books, and reliable scholarship for your next paper. And keep an eye out for 20% off select books on our website.

🧵#PalQuest hosts the digital, interactive version of All That Remains by Walid Khalidi, documenting Palestinian villages depopulated and destroyed in 1948. Among them is al-Lajjun, located in the Jenin sub-district of the Samaria district: www.palquest.org/en/place/168...

al-Lajjun — اللَجُّون

The village stood on a slightly elevated hill on the southwestern edge of the Marj ibn 'Amir Plain, on the two banks of Wadi al-Lajjun. Jenin as...

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"Framework for Peace" or blueprint for long-term occupation? On June 26, a trilateral agreement was signed by the U.S., Israel & Lebanon. Nicolas Sawaya examines all 14 articles of the agreement, read the full critical breakdown: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...