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  1. Complete the sentence about Knafeh with the correct year: Food historian Daniel Newman cites an ______ cookbook published in Beirut as the earliest documented example of a cheese-filled variant.
  2. Complete the sentence about Knafeh with the correct year: Gustaf Dalman described in ______ knafeh basma made with sweetened cheese between two layers of pastry being made in Sidon and Jerusalem.
  3. Complete the sentence about Falafel with the correct year: By ______ a falafel shop had been opened in Beirut and from there it spread down the Red Sea coast all the way to Yemen, it had spread west iā€¦
  4. Complete the sentence about Maftoul with the correct year: In ______, couscous was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
  5. Complete the sentence about Arabic coffee with the correct year: In ______, it was forbidden for its stimulating effect by conservative, orthodox imams at a theological court in Mecca.
  6. Complete the sentence about Arabic coffee with the correct year: In Cairo, Egypt, a similar ban was instituted in ______, and the coffeehouses and warehouses containing coffee beans were sacked.
  7. Complete the sentence about Palestinian embroidery with the correct year: In ______ there were ten dyeing workshops in the Murestan quarter of Jerusalem, employing around 100 men.
  8. Complete the sentence about Tatreez with the correct year: Dresses found in a ______ CE burial in Lebanon represent the earliest intact garments with Tatreez embroidery, and strongly resemble the regiā€¦
  9. Complete the sentence about Palestinian music with the correct year: Wasif Jawhariyyeh was one oud player, famous for his post-______ diary.
  10. Complete the sentence about Palestinian music with the correct year: After the creation of Israel in ______, large numbers of Arab Palestinians fled to, or were forced into, refugee camps in the Westā€¦
  11. Complete the sentence about Palestinian hip hop with the correct year: Palestinian hip-hop reportedly started in ______ with Tamer Nafar's group DAM.
  12. Complete the sentence about DAM with the correct year: In ______, Tamer released his first EP, "Stop Selling Drugs," featuring his younger brother, Suhell Nafar.
  13. Complete the sentence about DAM with the correct year: With the onset of the Second Intifada in October ______, DAM and Subliminal stopped touring together due to their opposing political opinions.
  14. Complete the sentence about Arab Idol with the correct year: Arab Idol is the successor to a previous pan-Arab rendition of the Idol series called SuperStar, which aired on the Lebanese Future TV forā€¦
  15. Complete the sentence about Rim Banna with the correct year: Banna died in her hometown of Nazareth on 24 March ______, at age 51, following a nine-year struggle with breast cancer.
  16. Complete the sentence about Palestinian literature with the correct year: The dispersal and appropriation of Palestinian books and archival materials following the ______ war has been described by schā€¦
  17. Complete the sentence about Palestinian literature with the correct year: Susan Abulhawa's book Mornings in Jenin tells the story of a Palestinian family lost their homes during the ______ war.
  18. Complete the sentence about Palestinian literature with the correct year: After the ______ Palestinian expulsion and flight, poetry was transformed into a vehicle for political activism.
  19. Complete the sentence about Palestinian literature with the correct year: The situation changed after Ghassan Kanafani, another Palestinian writer in exile in Lebanon published an anthology of their wā€¦
  20. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Darwish with the correct year: Darwish was born to a family of land-owning Arab Palestinians in al-Birwa, which was situated in the Western Galilee, on 13 March ___ā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Darwish with the correct year: In ______, Darwish left Israel to study in the Soviet Union, where he attended Moscow State University for one year.
  22. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Darwish with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Cairo, Egypt, where he worked for the daily newspaper al-Ahram.
  23. Complete the sentence about Ghassan Kanafani with the correct year: Kanafani was born in Acre, then part of Mandatory Palestine, in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Ghassan Kanafani with the correct year: During the ______ Palestine war, his family was forced out of their hometown by Zionist militias.
  25. Complete the sentence about Ghassan Kanafani with the correct year: In ______, he married Anni HĆøver, a Danish pedagogue and children's rights activist, with whom he had two children.
  26. Complete the sentence about Ghassan Kanafani with the correct year: Kanafani was born in Acre in ______ to a middle-class Sunni Muslim family with Kurdish roots.
  27. Complete the sentence about Edward Said with the correct year: Born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, in ______, Said was a United States citizen by way of his father, who had served in the United Stā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Edward Said with the correct year: After the ______ Palestine war, he relocated the family to Egypt, where they had previously lived, and then to the United States.
  29. Complete the sentence about Edward Said with the correct year: Said was born on 1 November ______ into a family of Palestinian Christians in the city of Jerusalem, at the time under the British Mandatā€¦
  30. Complete the sentence about Fadwa Tuqan with the correct year: Tuqan died on 12 December ______ during the height of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, while her hometown of Nablus was under siege.
  31. Complete the sentence about Samih al-Qasim with the correct year: Before the Six-Day War in ______, he was mainly influenced by Arab nationalism; after the war he joined the Israeli Communist Party.
  32. Complete the sentence about Samih al-Qasim with the correct year: By ______, al-Qasim had written twenty-four volumes of nationalist poetry and published six collections of poems.
  33. Complete the sentence about Samih al-Qasim with the correct year: In ______, he published his first collection of poetry, Waiting for the Thunderbird.
  34. Complete the sentence about Sahar Khalifeh with the correct year: After the ______ defeat of Jordan and subsequent Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Khalifeh began writing again.
  35. Complete the sentence about Taha Muhammad Ali with the correct year: Ali fled to Lebanon with his family when he was 17 after their village came under heavy bombardment during the ______ Arab-Israeliā€¦
  36. Complete the sentence about Mourid Barghouti with the correct year: Barghouti was born in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, on the West Bank, in 8 July ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Mourid Barghouti with the correct year: The Oslo Accords finally allowed Barghouti to return to the West Bank, and in ______ he was able to return to Ramallah after 30 yearā€¦
  38. Complete the sentence about Mourid Barghouti with the correct year: Barghouti was married to the novelist Radwa Ashour since ______, whom he met while studying at Cairo University.
  39. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, she moved to New York City, where she interned with The Nation magazine.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ibtisam Barakat with the correct year: Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood was published February 20, ______, by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
  41. Complete the sentence about Ibtisam Barakat with the correct year: The memoir is about growing up under Israeli occupation following the ______ Six-Day War and the persistence and resistance of the Paā€¦
  42. Complete the sentence about Ibtisam Barakat with the correct year: Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine was published October 15, ______, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  43. Complete the sentence about Ibtisam Barakat with the correct year: In ______, the book was nominated for the Arab American Book Award for Children's/Young Adult Literature.
  44. Complete the sentence about Susan Abulhawa with the correct year: Susan Abulhawa's parents, born in At-Tur, a neighborhood on the Mount of Olives east of the Old City of Jerusalem, were Palestinian reā€¦
  45. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, when Nye was 14, the family moved to the West Bank, which was then part of Jordan.
  46. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After less than a year, before the ______ Six-Day War occurred, they moved to San Antonio, Texas.
  47. Complete the sentence about Elia Suleiman with the correct year: Homage by Assassination is a "diary film" that critiques the ______ Gulf War via the juxtaposition of multilayered personal anecdotes aā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence about Elia Suleiman with the correct year: In ______, Suleiman moved to Jerusalem and began teaching at Birzeit University in the West Bank.
  49. Complete the sentence about Elia Suleiman with the correct year: In ______, Suleiman directed Chronicle of a Disappearance, his first feature film.
  50. Complete the sentence about Elia Suleiman with the correct year: The third film in his trilogy is called The Time That Remains, which competed in the ______ Cannes Film Festival.
  51. Complete the sentence about Elia Suleiman with the correct year: Suleiman won the Black Pearl prize for best Middle Eastern narrative film at the Middle Eastern Film Festival in Abu Dhabi on 17 Octobeā€¦
  52. Complete the sentence about Hany Abu-Assad with the correct year: Abu-Assad was born into a Palestinian family on 11 October ______ in Nazareth.
  53. Complete the sentence about Hany Abu-Assad with the correct year: In ______, he moved to the Netherlands, where he studied aerodynamics in Haarlem and worked as an airplane engineer for several years.
  54. Complete the sentence about Hany Abu-Assad with the correct year: In ______, he co-founded Ayloul Film Productions with Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi.
  55. Complete the sentence about Paradise Now with the correct year: Hany Abu-Assad and co-writer Bero Beyer started working on the script in ______, but it took them five years to get the story before camā€¦
  56. Complete the sentence about Paradise Now with the correct year: On 1 March ______, a group representing Israeli victims of suicide bombings asked the Oscar organizers to disqualify the film.
  57. Complete the sentence about Annemarie Jacir with the correct year: Jacir was born to a Christian family in Bethlehem, Palestine, in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Ismail Shammout with the correct year: In ______ Shammout went to Cairo and enrolled in the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.
  59. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After returning to Gaza in ______, he held his first exhibition, which was a success.
  60. Complete the sentence about Ismail Shammout with the correct year: Shammout and Palestinian artist Tamam al Akhal participated in the Palestine Exhibition of ______ in Cairo.
  61. Complete the sentence about Ismail Shammout with the correct year: In ______, he directed an eponymous short film of singer Zeinab Shaath performing her song "The Urgent Call of Palestine".
  62. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he and his wife, al Akhal, moved to Germany due to the Gulf War.
  63. Complete the sentence about Naji al-Ali with the correct year: On 22 July ______, while outside the London offices of al-Qabas, a Kuwaiti newspaper for which he drew political caricatures, Al-Ali wasā€¦
  64. Complete the sentence about Naji al-Ali with the correct year: In ______, after qualifying as a car mechanic, he traveled to Saudi Arabia, where he worked for two years.
  65. Complete the sentence about Naji al-Ali with the correct year: In ______, he entered the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, but was unable to continue his studies there as he was imprisoned for politicalā€¦
  66. Complete the sentence about Naji al-Ali with the correct year: In ______ Al-Ali moved to Kuwait, hoping to save money to study art in Cairo or Rome.
  67. Complete the sentence about Naji al-Ali with the correct year: In ______ he started working for the Lebanese newspaper Al-Safir, which permitted him to return to Lebanon for a longer period.
  68. Complete the sentence about Naji al-Ali with the correct year: During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in ______, he was briefly detained by the occupying forces along with other residents of Ain al-Hiā€¦
  69. Complete the sentence about Naji al-Ali with the correct year: In ______ he was described by The Guardian as "the nearest thing there is to an Arab public opinion".
  70. Complete the sentence about Vera Tamari with the correct year: Vera Tamari was born in ______, in Jerusalem, into a Palestinian Christian family originally from Jaffa.
  71. Complete the sentence about Vera Tamari with the correct year: Tamari joined the faculty in the architecture department at Birzeit University in ______, where she taught art history and visual communiā€¦
  72. Complete the sentence about Vera Tamari with the correct year: In ______, the New Visions art group was founded by Tamari, Tayseer Barakat, Sliman Mansour, and Nabil Anani.
  73. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Museum with the correct year: On 29 August ______, the museum received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
  74. Complete the sentence about Birzeit University with the correct year: In ______, the campus faced its first closure for 2 weeks by Israeli authorities, marking the beginning of series of repressive meā€¦
  75. Complete the sentence about An-Najah National University with the correct year: Ansam Sawalha, who is the dean of the faculty of pharmacy, is the first Palestinian woman named to the Women in Scienceā€¦
  76. Complete the sentence about An-Najah National University with the correct year: Sawalha was honored for her achievement of establishing the first Poison Control and Drug Information Center in the Paleā€¦
  77. Complete the sentence about Al-Quds University with the correct year: In ______, it was ranked as "most socially responsible university" in the Arab world.
  78. Complete the sentence about Al-Quds University with the correct year: The idea to establish "Al Aqsa" university in Jerusalem was proposed in ______ but remained a concept.
  79. Complete the sentence about Hebron University with the correct year: In ______, the foundation was laid and forty-three students joined the 'Sharia' college from different parts of the Palestinian Terā€¦
  80. Complete the sentence about Hebron University with the correct year: In ______, Hebron University was closed for six months by the IDF.
  81. Complete the sentence about Hebron University with the correct year: Since ______, HU has been running an Intensive academic program for undergraduate Palestinians with Israeli citizenship.
  82. Complete the sentence about Islamic University of Gaza with the correct year: No universities or higher education institutions existed in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip until ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Islamic University of Gaza with the correct year: The university was inaugurated in November ______ as an independent, nonprofit, gender-segregated university.
  84. Complete the sentence about Al-Aqsa University with the correct year: Established in ______ as a teachers' institute before later expanding its curriculum, it is the first and oldest public higher eduā€¦
  85. Complete the sentence about Al-Aqsa University with the correct year: In ______, the university's facilities were destroyed by Israeli bombardment during the Gaza war.
  86. Complete the sentence about Al-Aqsa University with the correct year: In ______, when Gaza was under Egyptian administration, a teachers' institute was founded to train teachers at all levels.
  87. Complete the sentence about Al-Aqsa University with the correct year: On 16 March ______, the IDF destroyed a branch campus according to miftah.org.
  88. Complete the sentence about Al-Aqsa University with the correct year: The campus had been disused since 18 January ______ due to earlier attacks.
  89. Complete the sentence about Palestine Polytechnic University with the correct year: In ______, the "Palestinian-Korean Center for Biotechnology" was opened, which was funded by the Korea Internationalā€¦
  90. Complete the sentence about Arab American University with the correct year: In ______, the idea of establishing a university in the West Bank was raised by a group of Palestinian businessmen.
  91. Complete the sentence about Arab American University with the correct year: The Nursing Department was established in ______ and it offers a BA in nursing.
  92. Complete the sentence about Palestine national football team with the correct year: A football federation in Mandatory Palestine was founded in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Palestine national football team with the correct year: The national team was not recognized by FIFA until ______, after the creation of the Palestinian National Authority.
  94. Complete the sentence about Palestine Football Association with the correct year: The Palestine Football Association was founded at a meeting held on 14 August ______ and applied for membership of FIFā€¦
  95. Complete the sentence about Palestine Football Association with the correct year: Since ______, Israeli clubs have played in the various UEFA club competitions, while the national teams have played inā€¦
  96. Complete the sentence about Hilal Al-Quds Club with the correct year: Hilal Al-Quds was established in ______ as an idea by Mahdi Hijazi.
  97. Complete the sentence about Hilal Al-Quds Club with the correct year: At the end of ______, elections for an administrative body were held, and Ayoub Hijazi won as president.
  98. Complete the sentence about Hilal Al-Quds Club with the correct year: At the end of ______, the club was accepted into the Palestinian Clubs Association as an active member.
  99. Complete the sentence about Hilal Al-Quds Club with the correct year: The official launch of Al-Hilal Club at a professional level began in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Palestine at the Olympics with the correct year: Palestine has sent athletes to compete at each Summer Olympic Games since its debut in ______.

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