PALESTINIAN ORAL HISTORY MAP

Dear Daniel,

As a part of the Visualizing Palestine team, I'm excited to share Palestinian Oral History Map, a new project that I've been developing for the past 6 months as a fellow with the Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA) at the American University of Beirut.

Video demonstrating the oral history map

The project is a means to navigate the POHA oral history platform, which contains over one thousand hours of oral testimonies from Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, describing everyday life and culture in Palestine before 1948, as well as their experiences of displacement and exile.

The interactive map allows you to explore the testimonies based on the historic landmarks that they describe—from schools, hospitals and factories to rivers, valleys and mountains—and to see these in the context of detailed historic maps from the 1940s that Visualizing Palestine helped to make available through Palestine Open Maps (POM).

An important goal of this project was to demonstrate the potential for people to build interactive and immersive experiences with the historic maps and data that we've collected through POM. We’re working on ways to make the maps more usable and more shareable over the coming months, so be sure to stay tuned!

warm regards,

Ahmad

Visualizing Palestine

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