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Fifth Annual Jerusalem Arab Film Festival
“#OurStoryLivesOn” is the slogan of the fifth edition of the Jerusalem Arab Film Festival (JAFF), set to take place from June 24 to 29. This year’s festival will showcase 28 local and international films, including 5 feature films, 5 documentaries, and 18 short films.
The program also features a conversation with architect Ghadir Najar and a scenario development workshop led by Salam Husari.
Additional venues and the full program and schedule will be announced at a later date.
A loving portrait of a city and its people, mindful of a past that isn’t really past. A book review.
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.”
Young Palestinian Jerusalemite musicians play qanun across Jerusalem landscapes.
Giving tribute to Gaza and Shireen Abu Akleh, the choir sings in hope, pain, and pride.
A stunning live performance work created by Douban Professional Dance that shows how Jerusalem has benefited from its diversity, and how diversity shapes Jerusalemites’ identity still.
How Israel systematically targets Palestinian university students in the occupied territories at a pivotal point in their lives
How a private university in the heart of Jerusalem defies all odds to preserve Palestinian presence and institutional autonomy in the city
Israeli security forces closed six UNRWA-run schools in East Jerusalem, implementing legislation passed last year that bans the organization’s operations.
Mapping the impact of Israel’s planned closure of UNRWA-run schools
Legal experts explain why Israel’s ban on UNRWA is on shaky legal ground.
Opening minds and spaces for creativity to take seed and grow
Jerusalem as seen by its artists
A space for Palestinian visual art and culture in Jerusalem
The ins and outs of child registration: It’s all about the parents’ IDs.
Despite the ongoing misery, Jerusalemites find joy in Eid rituals.
Israel steps up efforts to force Palestinian organizations out of Jerusalem.
An annual orgy of violent racism grows even more virulent.
A loving portrait of a city and its people, mindful of a past that isn’t really past. A book review.
The Umm Haroun neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah is threatened.
A bureaucracy designed to serve as a grand land theft
How a private university in the heart of Jerusalem defies all odds to preserve Palestinian presence and institutional autonomy in the city
Young Palestinian Jerusalemite musicians play qanun across Jerusalem landscapes.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
As soon as the ceasefire in Gaza took effect, Israel turned on the West Bank just as Ramadan was getting underway.
For Palestinian Jerusalemites, Amman, Jordan, is so close, yet so far.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
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.
An overview of the complex web of 18 military checkpoints around Jerusalem that control and constrain Palestinian access to the city
Israel uses the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law and several amendments to it to confiscate Palestinian property across East Jerusalem and give it to Jewish settlers.
A pictorial journey of Palestinian displacement over generations
Palestinian Jerusalemites are indigenous natives who enjoyed full citizenship rights and whose international rights were profoundly violated when Israel denationalized them as it established its state. A conversation with international law expert Susan Akram.
An interactive map of Jerusalem as divided by the Green Line of 1949