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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.
Why East Jerusalem’s Makassed is uniquely qualified to serve Palestinians’ orthopedic surgery needs
Israel escalates its war on Palestine and Palestinian identity with new education law.
The space for identifying as Palestinian in the Jewish state just got considerably reduced.
After facing various challenges, Jerusalem’s renowned Palestinian Heritage Museum is trying to reopen its doors.
From 19th-century family home to iconic Jerusalem hotel
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.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
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.
Damascus Gate has become ugly, not from an architectural point of view but from a daily emotional one.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
A lifetime family business is forcibly terminated by the state.
Khalil Raad’s photographs captured Palestinian tradition, resilience, and history before and after the Nakba.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
How many millions of Palestinians in historic Palestine and beyond are unable to enter Jerusalem without Israeli permission?
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
What is the outlook for Christians in the Holy Land at Christmastime 2023? Five leading Palestinian Christians gather to assess their current realities.
Palestinian Jerusalemites are indigenous natives who enjoyed full citizenship rights and whose international rights were profoundly violated when Israel denationalized them as it established its state. A conversation with international law expert Susan Akram.
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.