Evidence stays close
Every displayed fact links to a source, exact locator, and visible review state.
A bilingual living archive
A place is not a point on a map
Nakba Atlas reads every village and town as a place biography: life before 1948, displacement, and what remains in memory and landscape.
A public research edition
Three detailed biographies, a directory growing through review
The atlas presents Saffuriyya, Lifta, and al-Birwa as detailed research drafts, and begins a basic directory limited to places with a registered name, point, source, and precision. It does not imply a complete list or equal record depth.
Memory made visible
Two ways to filter the place directory
Move from the general atlas to records with a rights-reviewed visual archive or a reimagining lab that states its limits and never disguises interpretation as proof.
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The image archive
Historical photographs connected to the place with creator, date, licence, and exact source—or an honest space waiting for reusable material.
Open the archive room ↙02
If the village had remained
Three comparison angles—aerial, street, and panorama—built later from documented sources and always labelled as reconstruction.
Enter the reconstruction lab ↙Detailed record examples
Three place biographies, one atlas entry point
Detailed record · research draft
Saffuriyya
A detailed place biography connecting life before 1948, displacement, and what remains to sources and visible knowledge limits.
Open place biography ↙Detailed record · research draft
Lifta
A detailed biography presenting Lifta as a lived and transformed place, not only surviving architecture.
Open place biography ↙Detailed record · research draft
al-Birwa
A detailed biography reading the village in the Acre plain through life, institutions, land, and displacement.
Open place biography ↙How to read the atlas
Uncertainty is knowledge
Documented, estimated, disputed, testimony, interpretation, and unknown remain distinct.
Life before loss
A place biography is not reduced to displacement; its structure makes room for society, work, culture, and landscape.
Three ways into the evidence
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