{"id":9745,"date":"2026-07-07T12:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:14:34","slug":"palestinian-digital-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/07\/07\/palestinian-digital-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Digital Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-07-at-12.00.56.png\" alt=\"Screenshot: Palestinian Museum Digital Archive front page. Showing two women on a street.\" class=\"wp-image-9746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-07-at-12.00.56.png 769w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-07-at-12.00.56-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-07-at-12.00.56-600x548.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-palestinians-are-building-a-digital-archive-that-cant-be-erased\/\">Tamara Davison, Wired, How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can\u2019t Be Erased, 6 July 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s an excellent article from Tamara Davison in Wired on the significance of digital archiving in preserving Palestinian heritage and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palarchive.org\">Palestinian Museum Digital Archive \u0623\u0631\u0634\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u0640\u0640\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646\u0640\u0640\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0631\u0642\u0645\u0640\u0640\u064a<\/a> is well worth visiting online. There&#8217;s always something new to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a subtext, this highlights the significance of digital archiving and the skills associated with it, which should be part of multidisciplinary academic portfolios. They are particularly relevant in aspects of the study of Islam and Muslim societies.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Museum is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThePalestinianMuseum\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/palmuseum\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamara Davison, Wired, How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can\u2019t Be Erased, 6 July 2026 Here&#8217;s an excellent article from Tamara Davison in Wired on the significance of digital archiving in preserving Palestinian heritage and history. The extensive Palestinian Museum Digital Archive \u0623\u0631\u0634\u064a\u0640\u0640\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u0640\u0640\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646\u0640\u0640\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0640\u0640\u0631\u0642\u0645\u0640\u0640\u064a is well worth visiting online. There&#8217;s always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,290,320,584,310,5],"tags":[251,836,401,236,586,402],"class_list":["post-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-digital-archives","category-gaza","category-museums","category-palestine","category-research","tag-archives","tag-digital-archives","tag-gaza","tag-history","tag-museums","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}