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.
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.