Art Against Erasure

Faisal Saleh’s resistance takes the form of a museum dedicated to Palestine – the first of its kind in the western hemisphere, opened in Connecticut and recently expanded to Edinburgh.

Outside view of the Palestine Museum in the New Town area in Edinburgh, Scotland

Born in the West Bank shortly after the Nakba, Faisal Saleh moved to the United States on a high school scholarship and spent decades as an entrepreneur before becoming what he now calls a “museum-maker”.