Palestinian Rural History Project

The Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP) is an ethnographic fieldwork and oral history preservation initiative with a focus on Palestinian rural history and heritage since the late Ottoman period (-1917), through the British Mandate period (1918-1948) and beyond. The PHRP is curated by Roy Marom.

Palestinian historian Beshara Doumani, stressed the importance of oral history to "writing Palestinians into history,"[1] while Israeli historian Kobi Peled noted that most Palestinian oral history projects "focus on the Nakba - including its causes and consequences."[2] According to its mission statement, the Palestinian Rural History aims - in contrast - to document Palestine's historical geography, genealogies, toponymy, archaeology, agricultural practices, traditions and lore.[3] As of October 2022, the project has documented 700 Palestinian villages, comprising about 65% of the historically inhabited sites in Israel/Palestine.[4]

In addition to the Palestinian Rural History Project, other notable Palestinian oral history projects are the American University of Beirut's Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA),[5][6][7] and the Palestinian Oral History Map, Columbia University's Oral History Project in New York, Duke University's Palestinian Oral History Project,[8] Palestine Remembered, and Zochrot.

References

  1. ^ Doumani, Beshara B. (1992-01-01). "Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History". Journal of Palestine Studies. 21 (2): 5–28. doi:10.2307/2537216. ISSN 0377-919X. JSTOR 2537216.
  2. ^ PELED, KOBI (2014). "Palestinian Oral History as a Source for Understanding the Past: Insights and Lessons from an Oral History Project among Palestinians in Israel". Middle Eastern Studies. 50 (3): 412–425. doi:10.1080/00263206.2013.871705. ISSN 0026-3206. JSTOR 24583550. S2CID 145142006.
  3. ^ Marom, Roy (2022). "The Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP): Mission Statement". RG. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.31021.77285.
  4. ^ Marom, Roy (2023-01-01). "Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP): Gazetteer of Documented Villages". Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP): Gazetteer of Documented Villages.
  5. ^ "Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project". Institute for Palestine Studies. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  6. ^ SLEIMAN, HANA; CHEBARO, KAOUKAB (2018). "Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project". Journal of Palestine Studies. 47 (2 (186)): 63–76. doi:10.1525/jps.2018.47.2.63. ISSN 0377-919X. JSTOR 26407673.
  7. ^ Shehabeddine, Nabila. "LibGuides: Al-Nakba: 1948 Palestinian Exodus: Oral History". aub.edu.lb.libguides.com. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  8. ^ "Palestinian Oral History Project, 2017-2020 - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries". David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Retrieved 2023-05-12.