Resources
Learn about Palestine
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Learn the basics
A place that gathers the questions people often carry but rarely ask aloud. It moves through history, language, and power, laying out the story of Palestine with clarity, tracing how a land and its people came to be spoken about, and so often spoken over. Learn more…
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Palestine 101
An entry point into the vocabulary of the present moment. It walks through the events, structures, and realities that shape Palestinian life today, offering the context necessary to understand what the headlines rarely explain. Learn more…
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Palestine Curriculum
A collection of lessons, histories, and primary materials that open the door to deeper study. The curriculum invites readers and educators alike to sit with the long arc of Palestinian history and the voices that carry it forward. Learn more…
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Feminism & Palestine
A space where the struggle for liberation is told through the voices of Palestinian women and gender-diverse organizers. It reveals how questions of land, body, and freedom are braided together in the daily work of resistance and care. Learn more…
“Helplessness is often a story we inherit, not the truth we must live by. Each of us holds a position in the world, a voice that carries further than we think. Use it. Not for yourself, but for those made voiceless, nameless, and invisible.”
– Malek Asfeer
Get Involved
Getting involved does not always begin in the street. It can begin in a room, in a conversation, in the quiet decision to learn the history, support a family, attend a gathering, or stand beside a community that refuses to disappear. Movements are sustained not only by protest, but by people who choose to show up for one another in the steady work of solidarity.
A network that brings together organizers and community members across Colorado working in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. The site shares campaigns, events, and ways to participate in local advocacy and community action.
A directory of the many groups that make up the coalition, from student organizations to community and advocacy groups across the state. It offers a starting point for finding a local community or organization to join and support.
Palestinian Art
Artist and art historian was one of the leading researchers on Palestinian art and history. He wrote extensively, and his book Palestinian Art, 1850-2005 is an excellent introduction to Palestinian art history.
Artist, educator, and activist has been an important voice in Palestinian art for decades. Her book Liberation Art of Palestine is an integral part of the Palestinian liberatory art historical narrative.
“On this land there is what deserves life:
the hesitation of April,
the scent of bread at dawn,
a woman’s point of view about men,
the works of Aeschylus,
the beginning of love,
grass on a stone,
mothers standing on a flute’s thread,
and the invader’s fear of memories.”
– Mahmoud Darwish
Poetry has long held a sacred place in Arab life. Before the age of newspapers and broadcasts, the poet carried the memory of the people, shaping history, honor, and grief in language. Arabic itself moves through rhythm and metaphor in ways that resist translation into English, a language built to give form to emotion and making visible what otherwise lives unseen.
Poetry
Poetry Books
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All That’s Left to You
Ghassan Kanafani
(1936-1972)
Kanafani writes exile as a landscape of the body, where distance from home presses against the skin like heat in the desert. The novel moves between memory and present struggle, showing how displacement rearranges time, love, and the fragile hope of return. -
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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
Mahmoud Darwish
(1941-2008)
Darwish turns childhood and homeland into a field of memory where the ordinary becomes sacred, a horse, a village road, a father’s voice. Each poem carries the ache of departure while insisting that language can still hold the shape of what was taken. -
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The Butterfly’s Burden
Mahmoud Darwish
(1941-2008)
In these poems Darwish writes as a man standing between worlds, the personal and the political braided into one breath. The butterfly becomes a quiet witness, fragile yet persistent, drifting through history’s violence while searching for a place to land. -
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Rifqa
Mohammed El-Kurd
(1998 - present)
El-Kurd writes with the clarity of someone who refuses the language of polite distance. His poems move through grief, rage, and inheritance, naming the structures that attempt to erase a people while affirming the stubborn fact of their presence. -
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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me
Ghassan Zaqtan
(1954-present)Zaqtan writes memory as something that trails behind the living, light as a straw bird yet impossible to escape. His poems wander through fragments of villages, roads, and voices, revealing how exile carries its homeland inside the quiet corners of the mind.
Film
Farha
By Darin J. SallamAfter persuading her father to continue her education in the city, a Palestinian girl's dream is shattered by the harrowing developments of the Nakba.
Naila and the Uprising
By Julia BachaWhen a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom.
Gaza Fights for Freedom
By Abby MartinExclusive footage of demonstrations during the Great March of Return protests in Gaza, in which 200 unarmed civilians were killed.
Filmmaker Jason Sherman embarks on a journey to find the tree that was planted in his name in Israel years earlier. When he discovers that it stands on the remains of a Palestinian village that was destroyed in 1967, he embarks on another journey.
My Tree
By Jason Sherman