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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 checkpoints around Jerusalem that control Palestinian access to the city
A glimpse of Jerusalem at the point when the New City was just beginning to breach the walls of the Old City
A Palestinian educator and writer who wrote an iconic, vivid narrative recounting her family’s exile from Qatamon and Jerusalem in 1948
The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has historically been the northern gateway to the Old City and a home to powerful Palestinian families and consulates.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
An interactive map of the Palestinian governorate of Jerusalem and its two subdistricts, J1 and J2
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.
How the New City came to an abrupt and violent end
What does Jerusalem mean to Palestinians who identify as Jerusalemites? We posed this question to more than a dozen Jerusalemites worldwide.
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
What is it like to be exiled from the city of your birth? A Palestinian Jerusalemite shares his feelings.
Jerusalem was once a vibrant regional hub with a dynamic civil society, but its natural evolution was abruptly halted by the cataclysm of 1948.