LIVE NOW: Archiving the Struggle: Towards a New Political Imaginary for Palestine

We have Karma Nabulsi, @abedtakriti, @muna_d and Munir Fakher Eldin speaking today.

We will be live tweeting some highlights of the webinar under this thread!

“You can talk about the Palestinian cause in the abstract but to talk of the attempt of its people to organize, mobalize and develop their own independent vision and structures around organization and mobilization was highly suppressed in [academic] settings” says Abed Takriti.

“We are colonized people. We are revolutionary people. And revolutionary people tend to destroy documents, because they are always running away from regimes, they are always subjected to warfare” says Takriti on the difficulty of archiving the Palestinian revolutionary practices.

“Hear the story of the revolution from its documents” says Abed Takriti on their This Teach section that offers a course that introduces some themes of the Palestinian revolution during the period from 1948 to 1982. You can access it here: http://learnpalestine.politics.ox.ac.uk/teach 

"Many of this [history] were in people's own memory and not written down” says Karma Nabulsi regarding the interviews conducted with Palestinian revolutionary cadres who were active during the period between 1950s to 1970s. You can access it here: http://learnpalestine.politics.ox.ac.uk/cadres 

The focus of the archive "employs an approach of social history, history from the below. So, really allowing archiving to be alive and a dynamic process that involves intragenerational, dialogues, and conversations says @muna_d on the archive “Mapping Memories of Resistance”+

an archive that documents the untold story of the occupation of the Syrian #GolanHeights by focusing on the lived experiences of the Syrians who remained after the Israeli occupation in 1967, annexation in 1981, & their resistance.

You can access it here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/research/collaboration-programme/2018-19/michael-mason

“We didn’t want to tell a party narrative, we wanted to show that there are many party narratives that fed into the bigger picture that is the revolution as a whole.” Says @abedtakriti

"The young generation [has] a need to reclaim memories and use them." says @muna_d

"We're trying to make this curriculum open and intersectional with other struggles, to open our horizon to understand that a lot of mobilization can happen." @muna_d on "Mapping Memories of Resistance" the untold story of the Golan Heights.