An Exhibition by Baladna – Association for Arab Youth
Wednesday, July 16, 18:00–19:00
Location: the Palestinian Museum
Language: Arabic

The Palestinian Museum and Baladna – Association for Arab Youth are pleased to invite you to the opening of “Tijwal,” an exhibition organized by Baladna and hosted at the museum, as part of the “Spaces” project launched by the Abdul Mohsen Al-Qattan Foundation. The exhibition offers an immersive journey through sensory, emotional, intellectual, cultural, and historical pathways across Palestine—its people, its landscapes and their transformations, and the fluctuations of time. It sheds light on the actions of its inhabitants, their histories, and the imprint they have left in resisting colonial forces and occupiers on their land.

Tijwal represents the culmination of six years of research, exploration, fieldwork, learning, documentation, and archiving by the Baladna “Tijwal” team. They traversed numerous villages, towns, regions, and neighborhoods across Palestine—from north to south—observing the land and its stories, delving into oral histories of Nakba survivors, and documenting their narratives. They gathered stories and rich details in multiple languages and from diverse sources, painstakingly reconstructing a fragmented mosaic.

Their journey connected them with the legacies of the 1936 Revolution, weaving today’s story through threads drawn from a long social history—before and after the Nakba, during the British Mandate, amid the rise of the Zionist movement, and under successive occupations.

This exhibition aims to offer a profound understanding of Palestine by integrating sensory and aesthetic experiences with intellectual inquiry, bridging historical, political, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions. The curators believe that love for Palestine is incomplete without understanding it—learning its history and drawing lessons from its past. In our complex contemporary reality, life and place cannot be separated from their broader context: the enduring struggle for freedom, dignity, and independence. We cannot wander without a clear political, social, and environmental compass—one that remains firmly aligned with the values of justice, freedom, and liberation.