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Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 is a documentary film of Benny Brunner and Alexandra Jansse.


Ayn Ghazal

Zochrot, an Israeli-Jewish organization that aims to raise awareness of the Nakba has produced a booklet on Ayn Ghazal and organized tours to the site of the destroyed village.

Hanna Eady

The play Suhmata, which he co-wrote with Edward Mast about the destruction of a Palestinian village of the same name in 1948 during the nakba, debuted in Seattle in 1996 and has since been performed in various theaters in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

Hasan Karmi

Karmi and his family were forced to flee in the 1948 Nakba.

Ibrahim Fawal

Ibrahim Fawal (born 1933) is a Palestinian-American academic, former professor, and author of the historical novel On the Hills of God, about the experiences of a young Palestinian man during the Nakba, or "catastrophe" of 1948.

Ibrahim Ghannam

His paintings focused on describing the daily life of the Palestinian people in his country before the Nakba.

Nakba Day

Nakba Day is generally commemorated on May 15, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israel's Independence.

Nakba Day (Arabic: يوم النكبة Yawm an-Nakba, meaning "Day of the Catastrophe") is generally commemorated on 15 May, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israeli Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzmaut).

Yuli Tamir

As Minister of Education, she approved a history textbook for Arab children, wherein Israel's War of Independence is described as the nakba – the disaster.


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