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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. These documents include reports by human rights organizations, infographics and exhibition captions. MP is open to the possibility of offering translations of literary and scientific works in the future.
Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing, and Manifestations
This groundbreaking report was authored by lawyer Dani Majid, co-founder and president of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association. Dania is also the co-founder and artistic director of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival. In addition to being a long-time advocate for the Palestinian and Arab communities, she is also a human rights lawyer and housing advocate with a legal aid clinic in Ontario. Dania completed her Hon. B.Sc. at the University of Toronto before completing her MES/LLB at York University/Osgoode Hall.
Anti-Palestinian Racism: Naming, Framing and Manifestations (April 2022) is accessible on ACLA’s website (published in April 2022). Maison Palestine’s French translation will be released in 2025
Arab Exhibitions in Mandate Jerusalem: Resurgent Nahda
Maison Palestine is committed to translating into French any exhibitions curated in Arabic or English that it facilitates or imports into Quebec. Here, a panel from Maison Palestine's launch exhibition, “Arab Exhibitions of Mandatory Jerusalem: A Resurgent Nahda”, held at McGill University's Islamic Studies Library, from September 5, 2024 to June 12, 2025.
Infographics, Visualizing Palestine
Maison Palestine translates the celebrated Visualizing Palestine. VP is a project of Visualizing Impact, a laboratory for innovation at the intersection of data science, technology, and design. Their infographics are indispensable tools for understanding the ongoing Nakba.
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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.
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.
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 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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