PALESTINIAN GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
This crop’s harvest season often becomes a communal ritual involving entire families rather than a purely economic activity.
What are olives?
This city, located at the southern border with Egypt, is crucial for trade and travel due to its border crossing and has been a key area of displacement.
What is Rafah?
Until World War I, Palestine was administered as part of this empire rather than as an independent nation-state.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This word refers to a formal written agreement between two or more states.
What is a treaty?
Introduced and first implemented during the 2025-2026 year, this new PCC portfolio focuses on funding initiatives.
What is the Charity Portfolio?
Rather than simply decoration, this traditional Palestinian needlework historically functioned as a marker of village identity.
What is Tatreez?
A major West Bank city whose name is shared with an ancient biblical city; today, it’s strongly associated with soap and sweets.
What is Nablus?
This 1930s uprising combined armed resistance, mass strikes, and political organization against both colonial rule and settler expansion.
What is the Arab Revolt of 1936–1939?
These five countries make up the Maghreb region of North Africa.
What are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania?
This PCC event brings students together over trays of warm, cheesy dessert and lots of syrup.
What is Kunafa Night?
This Arabic term names both a historical trauma and an ongoing condition rather than a single past event.
What is the Nakba?
This city’s Arabic name means “the bride of the sea,” and its old port still shapes its identity.
What is Jaffa?
Proclaimed in Algiers in 1988, this document declared statehood while referencing UN resolutions and the Partition Plan.
What is the Palestinian Declaration of Independence?
What river runs along the eastern side of Palestine and forms part of the border with Jordan?
What is Jordan River?
Known for budgets, receipts, and asking, “Do we have funding for that?”, this PCC portfolio manages the money.
What is the Finance Portfolio?
This item of clothing, now globally politicized, originated as practical desert wear before becoming a nationalist symbol.
What is the keffiyeh?
This Gaza Strip city shares its name with an ancient Philistine city-state mentioned in classical sources.
What is Gaza?
Signed in the 1990s, these agreements reshaped Palestinian governance while deferring core issues such as refugees, borders, and Jerusalem.
What are the Oslo Accords?
This is the largest desert in the world by total area.
What is Antartica?
In spring 2025, PCC shared that this dual focus formed part of its identity — not just cultural celebration but also this broader type of engagement.
What is the Advocacy Portfolio?
In Palestinian cultural memory, this agricultural product operates simultaneously as food, livelihood, symbol of rootedness, and legal claim to land.
What is the Olive tree?
Known for the Church of the Nativity, this city is also a major site of Christmas pilgrimage in the region.
What is Bethlehem?
This post–World War I framework transferred control of Palestine from Ottoman to British authority under international supervision.
What is the British Mandate system?
Celebrated after the sighting of the new moon, this holiday concludes the month of fasting in Islam.
What is Eid al Fitr?
This PCC role promotes morale, supports leadership, and helps organize team socials.
What is the CRO (Chief Returning Officer)?