Who Gets to Keep Their Name?

Your name is the one thing they still cannot take.

Every empire tried to catalogue us. Israel’s the first to try to delete us. This episode looks at how Palestinian names carry proof when everything else is gone: houses, land, photos, documents. Hiba walks through how language, law, and paperwork are used to erase a people, and why a last name like Al-Nabulsi or Majdalawi says more than any document. She also sits with what it means to name a child after someone who was killed, and why that turns memory into something that breathes.

In This Episode:

• The fundamental difference between Arabic naming (recognition) and colonial naming (possession)
• How Palestinian geographic names directly contradict the "empty land" myth
• Why names like Saffuri and Lyddawi are evidence that Palestinians did not  ...