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A fascinating biographical account of an intimate interfaith friendship among five young adults in Mandate Palestine. 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.
The Jerusalem YMCA was the social, athletic, and cultural hub for Jerusalemites during the British Mandate years.
What happens when a city walls off a densely populated neighborhood and then abandons it?
What’s up with water in Kufr ‘Aqab? A conversation with Adalah’s legal director, Suhad Bishara, on the case they filed on residents’ behalf.
A fictional couple plays out how Israel’s new regulations for foreigners wishing to visit the West Bank will seep into their private lives.
The black hole of blacklisting: How Palestinians with PA IDs get wholly banned from Jerusalem with one click on the keyboard
An innocent question posed in good faith changes a family’s legal status and that of all its descendants.
Jerusalem’s eastern Palestinian towns, including al-‘Izariyya and Abu Dis, have been completely separated from one another and from Jerusalem by the Separation Wall.
What happens when the state all but decrees that life itself is not permitted? This is the situation that Palestinian residents of al-Nabi Samwil find themselves in.
Traumatized and paralyzed as a teenager, an intrepid journalist found healing through holistic medicine and yoga.
Palestinian storyteller Husam Abu Eisheh has dedicated his talents to creating theater in Jerusalem for decades, using humor as resistance.
Sharing legends and paranormal activities may be crucial for preserving the collective memory of Jerusalem.
Public Health in the shadow of genocide and attempted colonial erasure: A conversation with Weeam Hammoudeh
Jerusalem residents reflect on the vital services that UNRWA has provided for over more than seven decades.
Educating the next generation: a wide-ranging discussion among diverse stakeholders
An oft-targeted family gets a day of respite.
A community mourns a beloved pediatrician who treated generations of children.
Israel is demolishing a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem to construct new commercial projects, like those in California’s Silicon Valley.
A space for Palestinian visual art and culture in Jerusalem
A new zip line gives tourists and Israelis another way to avoid seeing or visiting Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
The land lease deal between the Armenian Patriarchate and the Jerusalem municipality, concluded in secrecy, is now in the courts.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
Israel tried treating Palestinian Americans like other US tourists, and I was finally able to visit my capital city.
Amnesty International says Israel’s use of biometric and facial recognition surveillance supports apartheid.
A conversation with the Nusseibehs about their family’s centuries of history in and contributions to Jerusalem
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
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.
The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has historically been the northern gateway to the Old City and a home to powerful Palestinian families and consulates.
Israel uses the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law and several amendments to it to confiscate Palestinian property across East Jerusalem and give it to Jewish settlers.
The Armenian community responds to a shadowy land deal that could remove a fourth of the Armenian Quarter.
What is happening at al-Aqsa Mosque under cover of war?