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Four Palestinian graduates of Al-Quds University contribute to knowledge of a rare and serious disease.
Two Palestinian women launch a research platform and community hub in their cherished hometown.
Jerusalem’s students get an opportunity to develop their neuroscientific research skills and shine.
A public soup kitchen in the Old City helps any and all who arrive at its doors.
A jeweler in the Old City shares his wistful dreams for the holy month of Ramadan as it approaches. What’s he wishing for?
Nowhere can you find barazeq as scrumptious as you find it in Jerusalem during Ramadan.
How Jordan’s ruling dynasty, the Hashemites, came to be custodians of Jerusalem’s holy sites
The Status Quo agreement on Jerusalem’s holy sites, enacted in the Ottoman era, seeks to prevent conflict between religious groups. Increasingly, it is being violated.
The sacred traditions of Jerusalem’s Palestinians through time and faiths
A visual overview of the multilayered points at which Israel blocks Muslims from accessing their holiest site, even during Ramadan
How early 20th-century Palestinian childhood was informed by rituals and oral tradition
An epidemiologist, ethnographer, and institution builder who made foundational contributions to medicine and health care in Jerusalem and Palestine
A glimpse of public health in Jerusalem at a fateful historic juncture
This year, Ramadan has started with intensifying oppression and ominous overtones.
Medical students at Al-Quds University take the future of public health into their own hands.
Short films take center stage for three days in Jerusalem.
A work permit freeze, now in its third year, leaves Palestinian workers literally up against the wall.
A counternarrative of a city in transition after a catastrophic division, revealing empowered agency and cosmopolitanism
A new law aims straight at the heart of Palestinian collective identity.
Reviving the straw art of her grandparents’ generation
A devious new attempt at undermining private education in Jerusalem
In 2024, violent attacks by religious Jews against Christians increased, especially in Jerusalem.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
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.
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
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.
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
This year, Ramadan has started with intensifying oppression and ominous overtones.
Religious Jews spit at and stone Christian clergy and institutions; Jerusalem’s Christians condemn the government’s tolerance for these hate crimes.
An interactive map of Jerusalem as divided by the Green Line of 1949
What does Jerusalem mean to Palestinians who identify as Jerusalemites? We posed this question to more than a dozen Jerusalemites worldwide.
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.