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We pay a visit to a master storyteller in his lifelong Jerusalem home.
Opening minds and spaces for creativity to take seed and grow
Samia Halaby documents key moments in Palestine’s history and landscape through her artwork, with a particular passion for Jerusalem.
A woman recalls her family leaving Lifta in 1948 in search of safety. But there was none to be had.
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.
The city and the settlers forge ahead with land registration in Jerusalem as a means to dispossess Palestinians in areas of interest.
The founder and director of the Israel Land Fund, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Arieh King, describes the fund’s goals in his own very explicit and unequivocal words.
Ir Amim and Bimkom’s June 2023 report, “The Grand Land Theft,” reveals Israel’s intentions behind undertaking the settlement of land title in East Jerusalem.
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.
The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has historically been the northern gateway to the Old City and a home to powerful Palestinian families and consulates.
A twin brother and sister offer the viewer a glimpse of life in Sheikh Jarrah, where Jewish settlers are aggressively targeting Palestinian homes for forcible expulsions.
The al-Qasem family home in Sheikh Jarrah, home to three generations, is a target for Jewish settlers.
A new zip line gives tourists and Israelis another way to avoid seeing or visiting Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods.
For Palestinian Jerusalemites, the Oslo Accords had the disastrous effect of severing the city from the rest of the West Bank.
A doctor who offered his services widely, helped establish hospitals and clinics, and taught himself to play the piano
A fascinating biographical account of an intimate interfaith friendship among five young adults in Mandate Palestine. A book review.
Health impacts of living “on the frontier”
A labor of love that empowers artisans and preserves heritage
After nearly a year of war, the city is a shadow of its former self.
A subdued edition nonetheless draws large audiences to view films from the Arab world.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
Accelerated settlements push threatens to sever Jerusalem’s southern flank from its Palestinian hinterland.
Khalil Raad’s photographs captured Palestinian tradition, resilience, and history before and after the Nakba.
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.
The Status Quo agreement on Jerusalem’s holy sites, enacted in the Ottoman era, seeks to prevent conflict between religious groups. Increasingly, it is being violated.
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.
A conversation with the Nusseibehs about their family’s centuries of history in and contributions to Jerusalem
Religious Jews spit at and stone Christian clergy and institutions; Jerusalem’s Christians condemn the government’s tolerance for these hate crimes.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.