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Curation and commissioning exhibits are at the heart of our mission. Activating documentary culture and visual representation enables Maison Palestine to reclaim Palestine’s narrations amidst the Western project of eradication through a pedagogical use of living archives.
Arab Exhibitions in Mandatory Jerusalem: a resurgent Nahda
Left and below: graphics from our launch exhibition, curated by Palestinian historian and architect Nadi Abu Saada, with architect and assistant curator Luzan Munayer and shown at McGill University's Islamic Studies Library from September 2024 to June 2025.
A print and interactive exhibition, “The Arab Exhibitions in Mandatory Jerusalem: A Resurgent Nahda” was mounted in three spaces at McGill University's Islamic Studies Library. It included a series of eight large textual and graphic panels suspended in the imposing octagonal room, a series of posters and reproductions of period documents, a timeline, an interactive map on an infographic screen, as well as a documentary on Palestinian painter Jamal Badran, produced for the occasion by Nadi Abusaada, curator of the original “Al Ma'rad” exhibition at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah (2021-2022). The documentary was shot in Amman in 2024, in the painter's own home, and consists of an interview with artist Samira Badran, Jamal's daughter. He designed several graphics for the exhibitions, such as the one pictured, left.
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Maison Palestine has a burgeoning library of around 1,000 works and a documentary collection comprising family and activist archives, including the Rezeq Faraj collection and the Lorraine Guay Collection.
Maison Palestine seeks opportunities for curatorial engagement with Palestinian scholars, artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, architects, and other knowledge producers and creative individuals and collectives.
Maison Palestine’s mission brings audiences closer to an understanding and appreciation of Palestine by introducing them to its academic, social and artistic institutions.
Maison Palestine translates into French, and from Arabic and English, a range of contemporary documents relating to the history and present of Palestine in all its dimensions and all its territorial and diasporic components.
Maison Palestine sponsors Palestinian-led cultural initiatives locally and in Palestine, including social engagement activities with a focus on self representation and self-determination.
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