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
A musician and diarist who created an invaluable account of life in Jerusalem from the late Ottoman to the British Mandate periods
A Palestinian scholar, historian, professor, and linguist who made significant contributions and prolific translations into Arabic and articulated and reformulated Islamic principles in a revolutionary manner
A poet and anthologist who spearheaded a massive effort to make Arabic literature available to English-speaking readers
A historian, archeologist, and expert on Palestinian cultural heritage and its preservation, with special expertise on Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron