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 influential scholar, educator, journalist, and author and a prolific translator of Russian literature into Arabic
One of the few female artists who depicted Jerusalem in the mid-20th century
An accomplished scholar of Arabic and Islamic studies and award-winning translator who traced his creative talent to his Jerusalem childhood
A renowned Jerusalemite artist and art historian who was exiled in 1967 and spent the rest of his life creating art that would convey, and lead him back to, the city of his birth
An Arabic-language teacher and media personality who became the first Palestinian woman to work as a radio broadcaster