"The Winter Archives" Collection Syllabus
منهج دراسي مجموعة الأرشيف الشتوي
Readings, essays, and listening gathered alongside our Winter Archives collection — on archives and who gets to keep them, on embroidery as history rather than "just" craft, and on the movements Palestine is bound up with.
- COLLECTION
- 4 articles
- 1 book
- 1 video
- 1 download
- 1 podcast
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"The Winter Archives"
Founder of Watan (Instagram)
This primer video gives context behind the development of the collection.
On Archives
Returns of the Archive
Mezna Qato, The Nakba Files
On how much of Israel's state archive is property taken from Palestinians.
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
Walid Khalidi
Six years of research documenting 400+ depopulated Palestinian villages.
Christian Palestinian Archive: A Project by Dor Guez
Chelsea Haines, ArteEast Quarterly
A curator's overview of Dor Guez's archival project.
On Embroidery
"Labour of Love" Exhibition Guide
The Palestinian Museum
On embroidery as history, memory, and women's labor, not "just" craft.
Fabric of Resistance
Elizabeth McInerny, Guernica Magazine
A short primer on the Labour of Love exhibit above.
On Solidarity & Interconnected Liberation Movements
Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity: Renewals, Returns, and Practice
Journal of Palestine Studies
On the history and future of Black-Palestinian solidarity organizing.
On Music
Palestinian Winter Archives Textures Playlist
Watan Studio (SoundCloud)
Our ambient textures playlist — good company while you read.