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Jerusalem-based artists reimagine cultural adornments based on their grandmothers’ memories to preserve traditions.
Every bundle Palestinian women carry tells a story.
Reviving the straw art of her grandparents’ generation
Unions in Jerusalem have a long and rich history, but the few remaining are facing raids, shutdowns, and pressure to leave the city.
Overview of defining socioeconomic variables for Palestinians compared with Jews in Jerusalem
Muna El-Kurd and her father recount life under settler takeover in their Jerusalem hometown.
Huda Imam is banned from entering the home her father built in Qatamon before 1948, but that does not stop her from standing outside it weekly.
A Palestinian whose family was forced to relocate from West to East Jerusalem in 1948 returns to one of the family homes in West Jerusalem that Israel confiscated and shares his family’s story and memories.
When Jerusalem was arbitrarily and heartlessly split, ripping apart homes, streets, neighborhoods, and lives
Beit Safafa’s villagers once lived, loved, and gathered while a border cut through their village.
A visual history of how Israel has evolved Qalandiya checkpoint to ensure regional control
What’s it like to live behind a military checkpoint in your own city?
Announcement
Old City Hub Summer Activities
Old City Hub–Old Martin Luther School, Muristan Street
The Old City Hub is launching a series of activities for the summer season, offering a diverse program designed to bring together creativity, wellness, art, and community. The lineup includes hands-on workshops in chocolate making, flower arranging, candle making, and pottery painting, as well as a film screening, a guided painting experience, and inner healing sessions.
Registration links for all activities are available on the Old City Hub’s Instagram profile.
In a dramatic tale, UNRWA recently managed to rescue its paper archives from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
A beloved doctor who served his city and his people, especially those in need, for seven decades
Jerusalemite artist practices cultural preservation by connecting the past with the present through artwork.
Jerusalem Waqf authorities raise alarm over the worsening Israeli siege on al-Aqsa Mosque and its long-term implications.
The long wait for demolition vs. the persistence to stay
Israel is taking one more step to erase UN support for Palestinian refugees, moving to demolish a UN-run vocational school.
Jerusalem-based artists reimagine cultural adornments based on their grandmothers’ memories to preserve traditions.
Jerusalem’s physical appearance is changing every day, but Palestinians remain sanguine about their attempted erasure.
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Waqf authorities raise alarm over the worsening Israeli siege on al-Aqsa Mosque and its long-term implications.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
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 founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
In 2024, violent attacks by religious Jews against Christians increased, especially in Jerusalem.
Before 1948, Jerusalem was not split between an “East” and a “West.” Rather, a cosmopolitan, multiethnic New City grew organically out of the Old City.
A formidable figure who dedicated her life to the care of orphans, education of girls and women, preservation of Palestinian culture, and social service
This scholarly yet accessible biography describes Jerusalem’s rise to an eternal symbol for the three Abrahamic religions. A book review.
Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led Jewish visitors in prayer next to the Dome of the Rock in early August 2025, marking a dramatic change to the Status Quo arrangements.
From 1967 to 1993, successive Israeli governments laid the foundations for an expanding settlement enterprise to Judaize Jerusalem and its surroundings.