Nakba Descendants Seek Reparations Through Family Archive

In observance of the 77th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), the Arab Center Washington DC introduced “Survivors of the Nakba from Landowners to Refugees” by presenting the Bseiso Family Archive of Palestinian landownership records. The extensive archive chronicles Palestinian life from 1906 to 1997, with Jahshan noting it is “the largest known collection of original documents from a single Palestinian family detailing land ownership before 1948.” The archive introduces compelling legal evidence of the historical “property theft and mass dispossession” that took place.

Palestine (Permanent Observer to the UN)