Salman Abu Sitta in dialogue with Johnny Mansour.

Sunday, October 24 | 13:00- 14:30
Location: The Palestinian Museum
Lecture in Arabic

Eminent historian Salman Abu Sitta, PhD, will discuss his ongoing project of documenting Palestine- the land and the people- spatially and socially. Through his encyclopedic projects, Atlases of Palestine (1877, 1948, 2000) and Atlas Palestine 1917-1966, Abu Sitta drew a Palestinian map that documents 50000 places. Abu Sitta’s aim is to build the future Palestine through proposing the return plan, and reclaiming the land, and achieving the right of return.

Biographies
Johnny Mansour
a lecturer and historian, he holds a PhD from Saint Petersburg University . His research interests include: The history of Islam and the modern Middle East, Arab Christians in Palestine, and the Middle East, the Arab Israeli conflict, and the Palestinian city; Coastal cities in particular.

Salman Abu Sitta
a Palestinian academic best known for his ground-breaking work formulating a practical return plan for Palestinian refugees. He is the founder and president of the Palestine Land Society in London. His work is devoted to the mapping of Palestine.

He is the author of The Atlas of Palestine 1917-1966 (2010) published in English and Arabic and Mapping My Return. Abu Sitta has published over 300 research papers and articles on Palestinian refugees, the right of return, the history of the Nakba, and human rights, his archival collection and working files form the backbone of the Palestine Land Studies Center at the American University of Beirut.