Palestinian Notables Atlas
Hundreds of remarkable Palestinians — poets, scientists, diplomats, athletes, and artists. A bilingual open atlas spanning 100 years of Palestinian achievement.
Featured Figures
- Mahmoud Darwish — Mahmoud Darwish is widely regarded as the Palestinian national poet and one of t…
- Edward Said — Edward Wadie Said was born in Jerusalem in 1935 into a prosperous Palestinian Ch…
- Yasser Arafat — Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, known to the world as…
- Omar M. Yaghi — Omar Mwannes Yaghi is a chemist of Palestinian descent who in 2025 became the fi…
- Ghassan Kanafani — Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and…
- Naji al-Ali — Naji Salim Hussain al-Ali was a Palestinian political cartoonist whose biting, u…
- Ali H. Nayfeh — Ali Hasan Nayfeh was a Palestinian-American mathematician, mechanical engineer,…
- Marwan Barghouti — Marwan Barghouti (born 1959 in Kobar, near Ramallah) is one of the most prominen…
- Walid Khalidi — Walid Khalidi was born in Jerusalem in 1925 into one of the city's most distingu…
- Mona Hatoum — Mona Hatoum (born 1952 in Beirut) is among the most internationally acclaimed ar…
- Elia Suleiman — Elia Suleiman is the most internationally celebrated Palestinian auteur, an acto…
- Rashid Khalidi — Rashid Ismail Khalidi was born in New York City in 1948 to a father from a disti…