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What’s it like to live behind a military checkpoint in your own city?
The right to medical treatment and even to relieve oneself are compromised by Israeli checkpoints, especially when extended closures are enforced.
The Armenian community’s concerns escalate over repeated police interference on the ground without legal authorization.
Armenians have centuries of history in Jerusalem and have made important contributions to the city’s societal and cultural fabric.
A newly renovated museum in Jerusalem’s Old City explores 3,000 years of Armenian art, culture, and history.
“All we talk about is the house”—A timeline showing how a Palestinian home in what became West Jerusalem was confiscated and passed to Jewish ownership and its origins erased
The pain of collective trauma as experienced by successive generations: A Jerusalem family’s story.
Palestinian authors describe Jerusalemites and their struggles to navigate their daily lives despite crushing Israeli colonial practices. A book review.
A prolific novelist who was exiled from Jerusalem for almost two decades, yet says “Jerusalem is a part of me and I am part of Jerusalem.”
Jerusalem was once a vibrant regional hub with a dynamic civil society, but its natural evolution was abruptly halted by the cataclysm of 1948. A book review.
The crisis in Gaza is providing cover for the expansion of Israeli settlements in Silwan.
Israel is rapidly advancing settlement plans across East Jerusalem; 2023 seems sure to be a record-breaking year.
A new Jewish settlement in the heart of Palestinian Ras al-Amud hurtles rapid-fire toward approval.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a world-renowned Palestinian feminist scholar, is arrested from bed and hauled to prison for interrogation.
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including children, face excruciating conditions in Israeli prisons.
A deep sadness cloaked the city, but the Eid al-Fitr rites were observed, including visiting the dead and saying prayers for their souls.
Jerusalemites observed Easter and Eid al-Fitr during the same week, but a deep sadness hung over the city.
Jerusalem’s Holy Basin is a microcosm of Israel’s settler-colonial agenda in the city and the country.
What’s it like to live behind a military checkpoint in your own city?
For Palestinian Jerusalemites, the city’s first luxury hotel will always be linked to a terrorist act that signaled the end of their lives in Jerusalem.
The Armenian community’s concerns escalate over repeated police interference on the ground without legal authorization.
The pain of collective trauma as experienced by successive generations: A Jerusalem family’s story.
Khalil Raad’s photographs captured Palestinian tradition, resilience, and history before and after the Nakba.
A woman’s attempt to reconcile her English and Palestinian identities leads her to Jerusalem to search for the Qatamon home her family left in 1948. A book review.
The Separation Wall blocked the road between the historically interconnected cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, forcing Palestinians to use a long, roundabout, hazardous route.
“Everybody will be able to come to Jerusalem from anywhere they want and celebrate in Jerusalem.”
Israel tried treating Palestinian Americans like other US tourists, and I was finally able to visit my capital city.
Before 1948, Jerusalem was not split between an “East” and a “West.” Rather, a cosmopolitan, multiethnic New City grew organically out of the Old City.
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
Palestinian storyteller Husam Abu Eisheh has dedicated his talents to creating theater in Jerusalem for decades, using humor as resistance.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
Palestinian Jerusalemites are indigenous natives who enjoyed full citizenship rights and whose international rights were profoundly violated when Israel denationalized them as it established its state. A conversation with international law expert Susan Akram.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile