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Seventy-eighth anniversary of the Nakba
From May 11, 2026 until May 15, 2026Check dates and times for each activity.
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Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
Check dates and times for each activity.
To mark the day for remembrance of the Nakba (“Catastrophe” in Arabic), commemorated annually on May 15, Casa Árabe is organizing a special schedule of activities, including a book presentation and a film screening. See the program provided below.
Wednesday, May 13, 7:00 p.m.
Presentation of The Black Book of Gaza.
Coordinated by Gonzalo Delgado and published by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo.
Thursday, May 14, 7:00 p.m.
Film: Screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab followed by a film colloquium
Organized by Casa Árabe and the Palestinian Embassy in Spain.
With the participation of Raúl Incertis, from Doctors Without Borders.
The day to remember the Nakba commemorates May 15, 1948, when the State of Israel declared its independence over nearly eighty percent of what had historically been Palestine. In the process, over 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and land, while 531 Palestinian villages were wiped off the map. The trauma which it caused is known as the Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe.” However, Palestinians also refer to al-nakba al-mustamirra, the “ongoing Nakba,” beyond a historical event, to a still continuing process of dispossession and ethnic cleansing, as the last two and a half years of military campaigns and bombings of Gaza have made apparent, leading to more than 72,000 Palestinians being killed and 171,000 being injured directly by the attacks, as well as 2.3 million displaced persons, all this coming with new threats of expulsion of the local population involving unprecedented levels of violence and impunity, which have already led to talk of a new Nakba right in the middle of the twenty-first century.
Presentation of The Black Book of Gaza.
Coordinated by Gonzalo Delgado and published by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo.
Thursday, May 14, 7:00 p.m.
Film: Screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab followed by a film colloquium
Organized by Casa Árabe and the Palestinian Embassy in Spain.
With the participation of Raúl Incertis, from Doctors Without Borders.
The day to remember the Nakba commemorates May 15, 1948, when the State of Israel declared its independence over nearly eighty percent of what had historically been Palestine. In the process, over 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and land, while 531 Palestinian villages were wiped off the map. The trauma which it caused is known as the Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe.” However, Palestinians also refer to al-nakba al-mustamirra, the “ongoing Nakba,” beyond a historical event, to a still continuing process of dispossession and ethnic cleansing, as the last two and a half years of military campaigns and bombings of Gaza have made apparent, leading to more than 72,000 Palestinians being killed and 171,000 being injured directly by the attacks, as well as 2.3 million displaced persons, all this coming with new threats of expulsion of the local population involving unprecedented levels of violence and impunity, which have already led to talk of a new Nakba right in the middle of the twenty-first century.
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