An educator, political and social figure, and intellectual whose diary of over 3,000 pages covers 45 turbulent years in Jerusalem and Palestine in the early 20th century
An educator and social worker who founded a school for destitute girls and was fondly recalled as the “patron of us poor people”
Jerusalem’s historian and defender of academic freedom, who fought to preserve the city’s diversity and plurality
An Arabic-language teacher and media personality who became the first Palestinian woman to work as a radio broadcaster
An epidemiologist, ethnographer, and institution builder who made foundational contributions to medicine and health care in Jerusalem and Palestine
A Jerusalemite jurist and lawyer who wrote widely on the status of Jerusalem and the Palestinian claim to Palestine
A prominent politician, lawyer, and journalist whose political views and activism led to his assassination during a turbulent time in Palestine’s history
A talented and dedicated engineer who devoted his life to institution building, Jerusalem, and the Palestinian national cause
A foremost authority on Palestinian land ownership before 1948 who provided future generations with crucial documentation on the Nakba and Palestinian refugees
A Palestinian Russian woman who worked for the British and Jordanian authorities, demanded political change, and established workshops for destitute women
A pioneering artist of landscape watercolors whose life spanned most of the 20th century and whose work explored “the vision of Jerusalem”
A pioneer of abstract painting whose art has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs throughout the world
A Palestinian historian and researcher who vividly documented the atrocities of the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
A professor of Islamic literature who returned to his birthplace, Jerusalem, after 25 years of exile to serve as the first president of Al-Quds University