Nakba

Palestinians know it as the Nakba — the Catastrophe.

Indeed, when I invited scholars to verify and assess the files, we concluded that the Bseiso family archive is the largest known collection of original documents from a single Palestinian family, detailing legal land ownership before the 1948 Nakba.

May 15 marks the 77th anniversary of the Nakba.

Oral histories passed down from my grandfather, my father and our elders speak of a time before the Nakba — of community, coexistence and peace.

Palestinians fear a repeat of the Nakba - the Arabic word for "catastrophe" - when hundreds of thousands fled or were driven from their homes before and during the war that followed the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.