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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
Damascus Gate has become ugly, not from an architectural point of view but from a daily emotional one.
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.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
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
A lifetime family business is forcibly terminated by the state.
A jeweler in the Old City shares his wistful dreams for the holy month of Ramadan as it approaches. What’s he wishing for?
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
Palestinians Nura Ghayth and Mustafa Sub Laban were expelled from their Old City home after decades of court battles and harassment.
How many millions of Palestinians in historic Palestine and beyond are unable to enter Jerusalem without Israeli permission?
The Khalidi Library, founded and maintained by the Khalidis, a Jerusalemite family with centuries of history in the city, is a local treasure.