Join the Museum of the Palestinian People for a night of gathering, community, and power. How can we commemorate a Nakba that is continuing? How can we heal when our wounds have never had a chance to heal? We are not a people of the past. Palestinian life, land, memory, and culture are Ever Present. […]
Reserve Your Passes → Food is more than nourishment, it is memory, identity, and resistance. Join us for a 3-part workshop series led by Palestinian American chef and activist Jinan Deena, exploring the deep connection between Palestinian cuisine and cultural identity. Through storytelling, history, and discussion, this series highlights how food becomes a powerful tool […]
In 1948, the course of life would be altered forever for the Palestinian people in one of the most transformative and traumatic periods in Palestinian history. Palestine and its people faced the loss of homeland, access, and freedom of movement. Lily Bandak was born just a few weeks following, in Amman, Jordan. Later in life, […]
Join us for a book launch event with author Ramsey Hanhan on Wednesday, June 17 from 7-9pm. The shrieks of warplanes on their way to bomb Gaza provoked Ramsey Hanhan to write. This collection of poetry and essays plumbs the depths of human thought, religion, history, and culture in search of hope amid the world’s […]
Join us for a hands-on painting workshop exploring Palestine, memory, identity, and diaspora through still life! Working with symbolic objects that carry stories of home, ritual, and inheritance, participants will reflect on the ways everyday things can hold the memory of family, place, and belonging. Led by artist Sarah Alsamarai, the workshop will invite participants to […]
Join us on July 15th at 7pm for a hands-on painting workshop exploring Palestine, memory, identity, and diaspora through still life.Working with symbolic objects that carry stories of home, ritual, and inheritance, participants will reflect on the ways everyday things can hold the memory of family, place, and belonging.Led by artist Sarah Alsamarai, the workshop […]
Kick off the Rooted in Resistance: Here Eternally Festival Weekend with an evening of Palestinian food, art, and performance. Enjoy a delicious dinner alongside live music, spoken word, dance, art, and a moderated panel. This intimate night of culture and community will nourish both heart and spirit, with proceeds supporting the Museum of the Palestinian […]
Kick off the Rooted in Resistance: Here Eternally Festival Weekend with an evening of Palestinian food, art, and performance. Enjoy a delicious dinner alongside live music, spoken word, dance, art, and a moderated panel. This intimate night of culture and community will nourish both heart and spirit, with proceeds supporting the Museum of the Palestinian […]
Palestine has shifted the world’s order in ways our elders never could have imagined. We are nearly three years into the newest phase of the genocide against our people in Gaza, and 78 years post Nakba. As Palestinians, we know the Nakba didn’t end in 1948: it has continued every single day since. And we […]
Introducing our Hikayat series, an ongoing conversation exploring the many threads of Palestinian cultural and historical heritage.For our first Hikayat event, we will be hosting Haitham Khraishi: a Palestinian-American who grew up between Maryland and Palestine, with family roots in Tulkarem, Palestine. He has been a docent at MPP since 2020, where he has given […]
Dis-play-ced: An Exhibition of Palestinian Athletic History Join us Friday, August 21 at 6 PM for the opening of Dis-play-ced, an exhibition tracing more than a century of Palestinian athletic history. Bringing together historical and contemporary materials, Dis-play-ced explores how sport has been shaped by changing political and social conditions, while also showing how athletic traditions have carried Palestinian national identity across generations. Through the histories of clubs, schools, teams, religious institutions, and athletes, the exhibition offers a look at Palestinian communities and their […]
