Professor May Seikaly –
Project
Title: Palestinian Oral History
Professor
May Seikaly has researched, and collected data on, memory and experience of
Palestinians for the past fifteen years.
From 1996 until the present, Seikaly researched extensively the Muslim
and Christian Palestinian communities in the old city of
The
lion’s share of her work has consisted of the compilation of interviews and
informal discussions conducted with several hundred Palestinians. Her latest project focused on ten villages in
the
Notes
Seikaly, “[f]rom this latest project I collected almost eighty personal
interviews as the hardcore documentation of the personal experiences of
survivors of the catastrophe and their displacement and at least forty
interviews from the old city of
Her
project is to “organize, index, and permanently archive” all of the material
that she has collected over the past six years.
The material is to be preserved on compact discs. Furthermore, all the material is to be transcribed
and translated into English. It is hoped
that this archive will contribute to the preservation of Palestinian history.