A prolific novelist who was exiled from Jerusalem for almost two decades, yet says “Jerusalem is a part of me and I am part of Jerusalem.”
A Jerusalemite who helped to found one of the oldest women’s movements in Palestine in 1929, and remained in a leadership role in it until her death
A foremost authority on Palestinian land ownership before 1948 who provided future generations with crucial documentation on the Nakba and Palestinian refugees
A Palestinian Russian woman who worked for the British and Jordanian authorities, demanded political change, and established workshops for destitute women
A pioneering artist of landscape watercolors whose life spanned most of the 20th century and whose work explored “the vision of Jerusalem”
A Palestinian historian and researcher who vividly documented the atrocities of the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982
A professor of Islamic literature who returned to his birthplace, Jerusalem, after 25 years of exile to serve as the first president of Al-Quds University
A formidable figure who dedicated her life to the care of orphans, education of girls and women, preservation of Palestinian culture, and social service
A Jerusalem artist in exile whose predominant themes revolved around depicting the city of her birth
Mayor of Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century who paved the streets and built the city’s public sewage system
A musician and diarist who created an invaluable account of life in Jerusalem from the late Ottoman to the British Mandate periods
A Palestinian scholar, historian, professor, and linguist who made significant contributions and prolific translations into Arabic and articulated and reformulated Islamic principles in a revolutionary manner
A historian, archeologist, and expert on Palestinian cultural heritage and its preservation, with special expertise on Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron
A physician and politician from Jerusalem who played a central role in the Palestinian nationalist movement and left a copious record of it all.
