Maison Palestine

05/10/2026

05/02/2026

Nos mystérieux paquets sont arrivés aujourd"hui en provenance de l'Institute for Palestine Studies!

04/17/2026

What we’ll be reading this spring?
Khaled Khatib, the Director of the Palestine Folk Museum in Jerusalem has written this fascinating history, published by Sharjah Art Foundation and just landed on our doorstep at Maison Palestine! One of us paid visits to the museum in recent years and learned about its connection to Hind Husseini and Dar al-Tifel al-Arabi, the House for the Arab Child, which she set up initially as an orphanage for the children whose parents were murdered at Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948 during the Nakba. Sharjah Art Foundation

04/12/2026

On lit la r***e ‘24 Images’ numéro 215 (juin 2025) “Résister / Exister : histoire et actualité du cinéma palestinien”

03/26/2026

What we’re reading: Sabri Jiryis’ ‘The Foundations of Zionism,’ newly translated into English by his daughter, writer Fida Jiryis. Published by Ebb Books, 2026.

“A foundational and vital work. Jiryis’ book is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand Zionism’s monstrous rise from myth to mandate, and a sobering reminder that there is no redeeming it.” -Mohammed -el-Kurd

02/14/2026

Maison Palestine is pleased to welcome you to the Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines at the University of Montreal for the opening of its exhibition Des bosquets qui brasillent (Glimmer of a Grove Beyond) on Thursday, February 26, from 5 to 7 p.m.!

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On this occasion, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Concordia University, will honor us with a short lecture prefacing the exhibition, entitled “Palestinian Poster Art: Generating the Revolution”

This intervention examines Palestinian poster art as a dynamic archive that documents the transformation of Palestinian identity and politics from displacement and suffering to revolutionary work. Palestinian poster art transformed the Palestinian subject into an active political agent, reshaping traditional nationalist representations, and rallying the people around the struggle. These depictions circulated widely in camps, newspapers, and global contexts, symbolizing the birth of the Palestinian revolution and resonating with broader anti-colonial liberation movements. Importantly, poster art provided crucial platforms for artistic expression that extended the Palestinian political voice. This visual archive demonstrates how Palestinian artists became archivists of dispossession, using poster art to reclaim dignity, document struggle, and forge an enduring legacy of resistance that exists in tandem with and outside mainstream historiography.

Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is an Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University, focusing on spatial and visual politics in Palestine, artistic creation, alternative imaginations, and settler-colonialism. Her research examines the role of visual arts in expanding Palestinian politics.

[Access: the bibliothèque des livres rares et collections spéciales is located on the 4th floor (elevator) of the Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines, 3000 Jean-Brillant Street, Université de Montréal metro station]

02/14/2026

Maison Palestine is pleased to welcome you to the Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines at the University of Montreal for the opening of its exhibition Des bosquets qui brasillent (Glimmer of a Grove Beyond) on Thursday, February 26, from 5 to 7 p.m.!

Registration link in bio.

Curated from The Palestinian Museum’s collection of political posters, the exhibition Glimmer of a Grove Beyond offers visual journeys through the Palestinian landscape: the devastated landscape of a confiscated country; the ravaged landscape of the country of exile; and the remembered, imagined, or dreamed landscape of return—of a Palestine resuscitated and kept alive by the sheer will to resist of an entire people—women, men, and children.

These posters from the Palestinian Revolution show this deep-rooted connection to the land, passed down from generation to generation, from those indigenous to that land to those ethnically cleansed from it – a deep-rootedness commemorated despite the massacres and despite the squalor of a life lived as a refugee: Gaza today echoes the Kafr Kasims, Sabras, and Shatilas of yesterday. Through the interstices of a genocidal colonization, these posters also show another permanency: poppies blooming in the heart of savagery, and orange groves glistening on the horizon.

“Glimmer of a grove beyond,” the title chosen for the exhibition by its curator, Palestinian artist and author Adele Jarrar, is a freely adapted passage from Jean Genet’s Un captif amoureux, written after the French writer had joined the encamped Palestinian fighters on the Jordanian-Palestinian border. “Des Bosquets qui brasillent” is the translation proposed by Maison Palestine, organizer of the exhibition at Bibliothèque des livres rares et collections spéciales of UdeM. On display until May 1, 2026.

[Access: the BLRCS is located on the 4th floor (elevator) of the Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines, 3000 Jean-Brillant Street, Université de Montréal metro station]

02/11/2026

Maison Palestine est heureuse de vous accueillir à la Bibliothèques des livres rares et collections spéciales de l’Université de Montréal pour le vernissage de son exposition Des bosquets qui brasillent, le jeudi 26 février, de 5@7 !

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À cette même occasion, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, professeure agrégée de sociologie et d’anthropologie à l’Université Concordia nous fera l’honneur d’une courte conférence-préface à l’exposition, intitulée « L’art palestinien de l’affiche ou comment générer la révolution ».

L’art palestinien de l’affiche ou comment générer la révolution

Nayrouz Abu Hatoum est professeure agrégée de sociologie et d’anthropologie à l’Université Concordia. Elle s’intéresse particulièrement à la politique spatiale et visuelle en Palestine, à la création artistique, aux imaginaires alternatifs et au colonialisme. Ses recherches portent sur le rôle des arts visuels dans l’expansion de la politique palestinienne. Elle travaille présentement à un livre sur les artistes visuels palestiniens et les insurrections quotidiennes. Elle est membre fondatrice d’Insaniyyat, Société des anthropologues palestiniens. Ses articles sont publiés dans Journal of Palestine Studies, Environment and Planning E, Geografiska Annaler, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, American Quarterly, et ses chapitres d’ouvrages sont parus chez Duke Press, Bloomsbury, Elgar et University of Toronto Press.

[Accès: la BLRCS se trouve au 4e étage (ascenseur) de la Bibliothèque des lettres et sciences humaines, 3000 rue Jean-Brillant, Métro Université de Montréal]