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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
Israel is ramping up the settlement of land title (SOLT) in East Jerusalem, dispossessing Palestinians and Judaizing the city.
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
A historian, archeologist, and expert on Palestinian cultural heritage and its preservation, with special expertise on Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron
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.
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
An epidemiologist, ethnographer, and institution builder who made foundational contributions to medicine and health care in Jerusalem and Palestine
A conversation with the Nusseibehs about their family’s centuries of history in and contributions to Jerusalem
Jerusalemite who dedicated his life to public service and strengthening the city, including as mayor 1957–67; popularly known as the “Amin of Jerusalem”
Religious Jews spit at and stone Christian clergy and institutions; Jerusalem’s Christians condemn the government’s tolerance for these hate crimes.