Food
What is the name of the Palestinian dessert made with shredded filo dough, cheese, and sweet sugar syrup?
What is knafe/chnafe.
What year was the Nakba (Palestinian exodus)?
What is 1948. The Nakba lead to the fleeting or expulsion of 700,000+ Palestinians.
What is the name of the traditional Palestinian scarf?
What is a kuffiya/7tta
What is the name of the pear-shaped string instrument which commonly accompanies poetry recitations and music?
What is the oud
Which three religions does Palestine hold importance to?
What are Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
What Palestinian dish is commonly served at weddings?
What is Mansaf
What is the name of the Church in Bethlehem which Israel held seize?
The Church of Nativity. In 2002, Israel held the Church of Nativity under seize and killed 8 Palestinians there.
What is the name of the Palestinian embroidery style?
What is tatreez. Tatreez has been done by Palestinian women for generations and has become a symbol of Palestinian independence.
What is the name of the Arab drum which can be heard in the background of almost every Palestinian song?
What is the tabla.
What is the name of the holy mosque in Jerusalem?
What is Masjid al Aqsa. Restrictions on movement placed by Israelis prevent nearly 4 million Palestinians from entering Jerusalem and this holy site.
What are the two most common trees in Palestine?
Olive trees and Fig trees
What year was the first intifada?
What is 1987.
What do Palestinian men traditionally wear with the Kuffiyah on their head?
What is 3akel.
What is the name of the Palestinian singer who won the second season of Arab Idol?
Who is Mohammad Assaf. Due to travel restrictions, it took Assaf two days to leave Gaza to Egypt where the auditions were held.
What is the name of the plant that takes up around 45% of the agricultural land in Palestine.
What is an olive tree. This amounts to almost 12 million trees!
Which fruit tree is one of the oldest known to Palestinian people?
What is the fig tree.
Who controlled the West Bank and Gaza between 1949 and 1967?
What are Jordan and Egypt?
What does the fishnet pattern on the kuffiya represent?
What is an affinity towards Palestinian sailers and a connection with the Mediterranean sea.
What is the name of the Palestinian Writter/ Poet who is regarded as the Palestinian national poet?
What is Mahmoud Darwish. Mahmoud Darwish is known for his poetry portraying Palestine through various metaphors.
What are the three large bodies of water surrounding Palestine?
What are the mediterranean sea, the red sea, and the dead sea.
What is the unofficial national dish of Palestine?
What is msakhan.
What is the name of the type of imprisonment without charge?
What is administrative detention. This has lead hundreds of Palestinians to go on hunger strikes to protest their being held without charge. They are often held under harsh conditions including solitary confinement for months or years.
What is the name of the baggy pants traditionally worn by Palestinian men?
What is Shirwal.
What is the name of the Palestinian National anthem?
What is Fida’i
What is the capital of Palestine?
What is Jerusalem.