Ida Audeh is an editor who lives in Virginia. Her review of Anan Ameri’s The Wandering Palestinian: A Memoir was published in Journal of Palestine Studies 50, no. 3 (2021).
This scholarly yet accessible biography describes Jerusalem’s rise to eternal symbol for the three Abrahamic religions. A book review.
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.
Palestinian authors describe Jerusalemites and their struggles to navigate their daily lives despite crushing Israeli colonial practices. A book review.
The story behind a tragic accident offers a window into a brutal settler-colonial landscape. A book review.
The Jerusalem YMCA was the social, athletic, and cultural hub for Jerusalemites during the British Mandate years.
This definitive history of Jerusalem’s iconic Moroccan Quarter explains its significance over centuries, how Israel destroyed it overnight, and why it still matters. A book review.
A collection of 44 essays and poems brings to life the voices of Jerusalem’s indigenous Palestinian community and the visitors who encountered them. A book review.
Colonial Jerusalem, written by Thomas Abowd in 2014, seems more relevant today than ever. A book review.
The trauma of losing home and familiar ways of being in the world lingered with author Nina Bazouzi Cullers for decades after her family left Qatamon for the Old City. A book review.