UC Berkeley

Established in 2014, the Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP) is an independent, non-institutional research initiative devoted to documenting, preserving, studying, and publishing knowledge concerning the rural history and heritage of Palestine and the southern Levant. The PRHP is the largest non-institutional rural-history archive in the region and possesses the widest spatial coverage. It encompasses more than 1,100 Arab localities documented through over 2,500 oral-history interviews.This public release provides preferred toponymic forms and administrative or regional attributions established according to PRHP editorial conventions. Enquiries concerning scholarly collaboration may be directed to the project curator. Access to the materials is subject to project policy, participant consent, privacy considerations, and the nature of the proposed research.