1998
AUGUST
* Renovation work continued at the Sakakini, and activities were kept to
a minimum. Central heating was installed, and work continues on building
the outer wall, storage room, new gate, and bookstore space.
* Capitalizing on the presence in Ramallah of Dr. Naseeb Shaheen, the
Sakakini invited him to deliver a lecture on “Preserving and Recording
the History of Ramallah”, the focus of 2 books he wrote on the subject.
Dr. Shaheen is a Shakesperean scholar & English literature professor
who has been researching local photographic archives, Ottoman and Quaker
archives, & Ramallah genealogies for decades. He spoke of his research
work, as well as of the history of the town, migration waves, etc..
* Within its Nakba commemoration activities, the Centre hosted a session
of Nakba testimonies by two eyewitnesses to the battles in the no man's
land area after the cease fire of 1948. They discussed relations with
the Iraqi army, & with Yugoslav volunteers, skirmishes between the
-Palestinian volunteer corps- Jihad Muqaddas & the Jordanian army,
& the Ras El Ayn battle.
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