Palestinian Rural History Project
The Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP) is an ethnographic fieldwork and oral history preservation initiative with a focus on Palestinian rural history and heritage since the late Ottoman period (–1917), through the British Mandate period (1918–1948) and beyond. The PHRP is curated by Roy Marom.
Palestinian historian Beshara Doumani, stressed the importance of oral history to "writing Palestinians into history,"{{Cite journal |last=Doumani |first=Beshara B. |date=1992-01-01 |title=Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2537216 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=5–28 |doi=10.2307/2537216 |jstor=2537216 |issn=0377-919X}} while Israeli historian Kobi Peled noted that most Palestinian oral history projects "focus on the Nakba - including its causes and consequences."{{Cite journal |last=PELED |first=KOBI |date=2014 |title=Palestinian Oral History as a Source for Understanding the Past: Insights and Lessons from an Oral History Project among Palestinians in Israel |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24583550 |journal=Middle Eastern Studies |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=412–425 |doi=10.1080/00263206.2013.871705 |jstor=24583550 |s2cid=145142006 |issn=0026-3206}} According to its mission statement, the Palestinian Rural History aims - in contrast - to document Palestine's historical geography, genealogies, toponymy, archaeology, agricultural practices, traditions and lore.{{Cite web |last=Marom |first=Roy |date=2022 |title=The Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP): Mission Statement |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366191578 |via=ResearchGate |language=en |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.31021.77285 |doi-access=free }} As of October 2022, the project has documented 700 Palestinian villages, comprising about 65% of the historically inhabited sites in Israel/Palestine.{{Cite web |last=Marom |first=Roy |date=2023-01-01 |title=Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP): Gazetteer of Documented Villages |url=https://www.academia.edu/89656575 }}
In addition to the Palestinian Rural History Project, other notable Palestinian oral history projects are the American University of Beirut's Palestinian Oral History Archive ([https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx POHA]),{{Cite web |title=Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project |url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=Institute for Palestine Studies |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=SLEIMAN |first1=HANA |last2=CHEBARO |first2=KAOUKAB |date=2018 |title=Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26407673 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=47 |issue=2 (186) |pages=63–76 |doi=10.1525/jps.2018.47.2.63 |jstor=26407673 |issn=0377-919X}}{{Cite web |last=Shehabeddine |first=Nabila |title=LibGuides: Al-Nakba: 1948 Palestinian Exodus: Oral History |url=https://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/c.php?g=342715&p=2477020 |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=aub.edu.lb.libguides.com |language=en}} and the [https://worldhistorycommons.org/palestinian-oral-history-map Palestinian Oral History Map], Columbia University's [http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/oral-history-project Oral History Project] in New York, Duke University's Palestinian Oral History Project,{{Cite web |title=Palestinian Oral History Project, 2017-2020 - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries |url=https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/palestinianoralhistoryproject |access-date=2023-05-12 |website=David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library |language=en}} [https://www.palestineremembered.com/OralHistory/Interviews-Listing/Story1151.html Palestine Remembered], and Zochrot.