Welcome

Hello! We are your alternative guide for searching for the history of the Ottoman Empire in Israel/Palestine.

This is not a guided tour. If you choose to visit a historical site with us, we will not know more than you about it in most cases, especially not about the history of the Ottoman Empire. You will likely encounter difficulties finding information about it elsewhere.

We can offer a guided search. A search for a hard-to-find history. A hidden, blurred, erased history.

We are not a single entity. We do not hold one opinion. Each one of us knows only a part of the whole. You may take us to historical sites or listen to us without leaving home. You do not have to be at a historical site to go on a search with us – those times are over. You may say they belong in history. And history is everywhere.

You can choose whether to turn us on or off. You can stop us anytime you like. That is the purpose of this search.

Right now, all we have are silences, voids, gaps. We ask questions. You will decide what to do about these questions.

Before we begin, do not be afraid of emptiness. It has a liberating potential.