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A newly renovated museum in Jerusalem’s Old City explores 3,000 years of Armenian art, culture, and history.
We review the book Feast of Ashes, by Sato Moughalian, which chronicles the origins of the Armenian ceramic tradition in Jerusalem, first introduced there by the author’s grandfather, a refugee from the Armenian genocide.
The infinite indignities and humiliations of daily life for Palestinian spouses living in Jerusalem on Israeli military stay permits
When legally participating in your nation’s elections results in deportation from the city of your birth
The everyday experience of moving about in Jerusalem while Palestinian
Months after Israel changed visa procedures for foreigners entering the West Bank to visit Palestinians, the process remains murky.
A fictional couple plays out how Israel’s new regulations for foreigners wishing to visit the West Bank will seep into their private lives.
How the New City came to an abrupt and violent end
An epidemiologist, ethnographer, and institution builder who made foundational contributions to medicine and health care in Jerusalem and Palestine
A well-to-do Jerusalem family was made refugees overnight in 1948; they lost everything but tenaciously remained in their city and gradually rebuilt.
Philip Farah hasn’t lived in Jerusalem since 1978, but it remains “a huge part of my psyche.”
What is it like to be exiled from the city of your birth? A Palestinian Jerusalemite shares his feelings.
An introduction to the applications of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) within the context of the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT), including East Jerusalem.
Rinad’s story shows how closure steals time, lives, and livelihoods, and robs Palestinians like her of the chance to enjoy and engage with their own city.
A photo album of the Meo family business, a Jerusalemite Old City landmark for 124 years
Israel’s settlements in and around Jerusalem take the shape of three rings that contribute to Judaizing the city and fragmenting its Palestinian communities.
A glimpse of Jerusalem at the point when the New City was just beginning to breach the walls of the Old City
Closure is not only imposed on Palestinian access to the city of Jerusalem as a whole; it is also imposed on Palestinian access to their own neighborhoods—in this case, Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.
Betty Majaj, a nurse in Jerusalem, lived through the demise of the New City and its reincarnation into West Jerusalem. This is her story.
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.
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.
A vivid memoir attesting to what it was like to live through the violent transformation of the New City of Jerusalem into West Jerusalem in 1947–48
Izzeldin Bukhari founded Sacred Cuisine to celebrate Palestinian culinary heritage and his city, Jerusalem, and to express the essence of his Sufi religion, which views feeding others as a form of love.
An interactive map of the checkpoints around Jerusalem that control Palestinian access to the city