Studies about the Arab community in Cuba flourished during the 1980s when a group of scholars from Museo Casa de los Árabes and la Unión Árabe de Cuba began using archival, documentary, bibliographic and oral accounts to reconstruct a history of this community. The existence of a large community of descendants of immigrants and elderly immigrants who still have vivid memories of decades of Arab immigration to Cuba enabled developing new research directions and several publications on the cultural history of Arabs in Cuba, most notably Rigoberto Menéndez Paredes’ Componentes árabes en la cultura cubana (1999) and Los árabes en Cuba (2007). This presentation seeks to shed light on the history of the Palestinians in Cuba, the second largest community of Arab immigrants after Lebanese. Since the last quarter of the 19th century, Palestinians migrated to Cuba for various reasons. They settled in the main cities of the island and also in rural towns. They also formed important associations, such as Sociedad Palestina Árabe de Cuba and el Centro Palestina. However, despite the evident political, cultural and economic assimilation of Palestinian-Cubans, including the Palestinian descendants of influential families, such as the Tabraue and Darwich families, the modern and contemporary history of Palestinians in Cuba remains largely understudied. Recognizing the significance of Palestine and its right to self-determination as a priority cause in Cuba, I will examine in my presentation the past and present efforts that have been made by Cuban and Palestinian-Cuban scholars, cultural historians and community members to archive the history of Palestinians in Cuba. In addition to describing some of the major material conditions that have affected the creation of a Palestinian archive in Cuba, I will address how cultural notions of integration and the categorizations of Palestinians as members of the Afro-Asian diaspora influenced writing the history of Palestinians in Cuba. Finally, I will discuss how the political solidarity of Cuba with Palestine informed and championed documenting two parallel histories: the history of Palestine and the history of Palestinians in Cuba.