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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 interactive map of the Palestinian governorate of Jerusalem and its two subdistricts, J1 and J2
A powerful testament to the experience of living through the transformative and traumatic period when the wall was built in Jerusalem and its environs.
Through her art, Jumana El Husseini searched for the Palestine and the much-beloved Jerusalem that were denied to her during her adult life.
One of Jerusalem’s most important villages, al-Walaja, has been suffocated by Israeli settlements and their accompanying infrastructure and converted into an open-air prison.
Under the theme “Stand Up Jerusalem,” the Jerusalem Music Festival returned for a 26th year featuring six days of music, drama, comedy, and dance.
Americans are heavily involved in settler aggressions against Palestinians in Jerusalem that result in their dispossession.
In Silwan, art installations painted with powerful messages offer a sense of dignity, resilience, and hope to a community under continuous threat.
An art installation project in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan sends a message to the world.
An artist, curator, and cultural institution builder who believes that Jerusalem is more than a symbol of holiness
The Khalidi Library, founded and maintained by the Khalidis, a Jerusalemite family with centuries of history in the city, is a local treasure.
Surrounded, isolated, and overshadowed by the Separation Wall, al-Karawan Restaurant somehow remains open and popular for its famous delectable homemade Palestinian cooking.