"Every scan, every backup, and every replicated copy is an act of resistance against erasure—and an attempt to ensure that Palestinian memory survives even if the places that hold it do not.

“Having the digital archive is a way of protecting our memory,” he says.

He often returns to the words of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish: We who are able to remember are able to liberate ourselves."

• How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased; Tamara Davison