History
The Arabic name for the "catastrophe" in 1948 when approximately 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands
The national tree of Palestine
What is the olive tree?
Delicious chickpea balls that go well with tahini and hummus
What is Falafel?
One country that borders Palestine
What is Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or Egypt?
The Palestinian "government" that has "sovereignty" over the West Bank
What is the Palestinian Authority?
The empire responsible for the Balfour doctrine that supported the creation of a settler-colonial state in Palestine
What is the British Empire?
The Palestinian line and circle dance
What is Dabke?
A delicious dessert, originally from Nablus, is made with spun pastry dough layered with cheese and soaked in sweet attar
What is Kunafeh?
The body of water in Palestine that borders Jordan and has no fish
What is the Dead Sea?
The Arabic word for an "uprising against oppression" that the Palestinians have engaged in to resist their colonial occupiers
What is Intifada?
The empire that ruled Palestine from 1516-1917
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The word in Arabic for the steadfastness and resilience of the Palestinian people
What is Sumud?
The national dish of Palestine
What is Musakhan?
A Palestinian city on the Mediterranean Sea known for its delicious oranges
What is Jaffa?
The current US ambassador to Israel has shamelessly referred to this Palestinian area as "Judea and Samaria"
What is The West Bank?
The oldest city in Palestine, with famous walls built around 8000 BCE
What is Jericho (Areeha)?
The national poet of Palestine
Who is Mahmoud Darwish?
The egg and tomatoes dish that is a popular breakfast dish throughout Palestine, the Levant, and North Africa
What is Shakshuka?
The part of Egypt that borders Gaza and that Israel occupied in 1967
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
The founder of modern-day Zionism
Who is Theodor Herzel?
The 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France that partitioned the Middle East, giving the British control over Palestine, Jordan and Iraq and the French control over Syria and Lebanon
What is the Sykes-Picot agreement?
The Palestinian University of Columbia professor who wrote the seminal book, "Orientalism", and offered a scathing critique of the failure of the Oslo Accords
Who is Edward Said?
The Palestinian culinary herb and spice mix that is delicious with olive oil and pita bread
What is Za'atar?
The desert in the South of Occupied Palestine
What is Al-Naqab/Negev?
One of the Palestinian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leaders who was just freed from Israeli prison and was first arrested after demonstrating for International Women's Day
Who is Khalida Jarrar?