Notes and Sources

1. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 355.
2. Ibid., 392.
3. Israel Antiquities Authority, “Heritage Conservation in Israel,” http://www.iaa-conservation.org.il/Projects_Item_eng.asp?site_id=3&subject_id=6&id=114.
4. Morris, Palestinian Refugee Problem, 347.
5. Tomer Gardi, Noga Kadman, and Umar Al-Ghubari, eds., Once Upon a Land: A Tour Guide (Hebrew and Arabic) (Tel Aviv: Zochrot-Pardes, 2012), 39.
6. Morris, Palestinian Refugee Problem, 237–39.
7. Oded Megido (Israeli Nataf founder), email sent to Noga Kadman, April 5, 2014.
8. JNF, Shadow of the Landscape: Sataf (brochure, Hebrew) (Jerusalem: JNF, n.d.).
9. Gardi, Once Upon a Land, 121.
10. Morris, Palestinian Refugee Problem, 520.
11. Ibid., 509.
12. Roni Ellenblum, Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
13. ”Palestinian Nakba Website,” online image archive, http://nakba-online.tripod.com/InformationFrame.htm.
14. Walid Khalidi, ed., All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1992), 83.
15. Gilad Margalit, “Jewish Haifa denies its Arab past,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, vol. 18, no. 2 (2014): 230–43, at 235–36.
16. Morris, Palestinian Refugee Problem, 509.
17. Ibid., 508–09.
18. Ibid., 466; Khalidi, All That Remains, 212.
19. Benvenisti, Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (Univ. of California Press, 2000), 140.
20. HCJ Petition 288/51 and 33/52, ruling of April 28, 1955.
21. Aron Shai, “The Fate of the Abandoned Arab Villages in Israel before and after the Six-Day War” (Hebrew), Cathedra, vol. 105 (2002): 151–70, at 152.
22. Benvenisti, Sacred Landscape, 140.
23. Ibid., 294–95.
24. JNF, “American Independence Park – Friendship through Nature,” http://www.kkl.org.il/eng/tourism-and-recreation/forests-and-parks/us-independance-park.aspx.
25. Morris, Palestinian Refugee Problem, 244–45.
26. Ibid., 235.
27. Ibid., 353–54.
28. Ibid., 228, 391.

I come from there, by Mahmoud Darwish, is taken from poemhunter.com. Published collections of Darwish poems in translation include: The Butterfly’s Burden, trans. Fady Joudah (Bloodaxe Books, 2020); If I Were Another, trans. Fady Joudah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); and Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, trans.,ed. Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché, with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein (University of California Press, 2003).

SOURCES

The site references and details of the events that took place in the ­individual villages have been compiled in collaboration with Noga Kadman, ­researcher and expert on the 1948 villages, and author of Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015).

Information has been gathered from the sources listed in the bibliography opposite, which offer the reader comprehensive evaluations of the events surrounding the war of 1948 and the transformations these events wrought upon the land.

Latitude and Longitude (map on p. 4 and precise image locations): Fazal Sheikh

1948: Khalidi and Abu-Sitta, based on British Mandate census figures

Occupation: Morris, 2004

Israeli settlements: Khalidi; Kadman, appendix 1

Remaining structures: Khalidi; field work by Sheikh and Kadman

Israeli official name: Kadman, appendix 2

NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION

The transliteration system used in Memory Trace gives preference to the phonetic pronunciation of words, and favors common parlance over historical or literary usage (for example: Bisān and not Baysān), so as to better indicate the essence of the language as it is used today. The system does not distinguish between letters that have similar pronunciation as far as the foreign speaker is concerned (for example the letter S stands for both س and ص). When an official spelling of the name of a person, place, or institution contradicts this system, deference has been made to that which is in common usage, and therefore most accessible.

Consonants

H	T	Ḥ	GH	KH	Q	TZ	S	DH	‛	ʼ	SH
ه	ט ת	ح	غ	خ	ق	—	ص س	ذ	ع	ؤ ئ إ أ	ش
ה	ط ت	ח	—	כ	ק	צ	שׂ ס	—	ע	א	ש

Vowels

A	Ī	Ū	Ā	Ē	Ō
ة ى ا	ي	و	ا	colloquial (يX)	colloquial (وX)
ה	י	וּ	—	—	וֹ

Bibliography

Abu-Sitta, Salman H. The Palestinian Nakba 1948: The Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine (English and Arabic). London: Palestinian Return Centre, 2000.

Benvenisti, Meron. Sacred Landscapes: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948. Trans. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.

Ellenblum, Roni. Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Gardi, Tomer, Noga Kadman, and Umar Al-Ghubari, eds. Once Upon a Land: A Tour Guide (Hebrew and Arabic). Tel Aviv: Zochrot-Pardes, 2012.

Jewish National Fund (JNF). Shadow of the Landscape: Sataf (brochure, Hebrew). Jerusalem: JNF, n.d.

Kadman, Noga. Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.

Khalidi, Walid, ed. All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1992.

Margalit, Gilad. “Jewish Haifa denies its Arab past.” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 18, no. 2 (2014): 230–43.

Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

———. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2008.

Nazzal, Nafez. The Palestinian Exodus from Galilee 1948. Beirut: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1978.

Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Shai, Aron. “The Fate of the Abandoned Arab Villages in Israel before and after the Six-Day War” (Hebrew). Cathedra 105 (2002): 151–70.