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A jeweler in the Old City shares his wistful dreams for the holy month of Ramadan as it approaches. What's he wishing for?
Teresa, 22, lives in Ramallah, but she’s never seen nearby Jerusalem due to Israel’s Separation Wall and permit regime. What lies behind the wall?
Omar Sharabaty introduces Jerusalem to flow art and fire performance.
What is it like to be exiled from the city of your birth? A Palestinian Jerusalemite shares his feelings.
Traumatized and paralyzed as a teenager, an intrepid journalist found healing through holistic medicine and yoga.
An overview of the complex web of 18 military checkpoints around Jerusalem that control and constrain Palestinian access to the city
What is closure, and how does it block Palestinians with certain IDs from moving freely? We asked Yael Berda, who worked within and studied this little-understood bureaucracy.
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 influential scholar, educator, journalist, and author and a prolific translator of Russian literature into Arabic
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.
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.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
A jeweler in the Old City shares his wistful dreams for the holy month of Ramadan as it approaches. What's he wishing for?
Street circus artist Ahmad Ju‘beh opens up about how he came to find his calling and what it means to him.
Veteran journalist Daoud Kuttab retraces earlier chapters in Israel’s unwavering campaign against an independent Palestinian media.
A Palestinian media office that helped the PA extend its radio and TV broadcasting into East Jerusalem is shuttered by Israel.
Teresa, 22, lives in Ramallah, but she’s never seen nearby Jerusalem due to Israel’s Separation Wall and permit regime. What lies behind the wall?
The trauma of losing home and familiar ways of being in the world lingered with author Nina Bazouzi Cullers for decades after her family left Qatamon for the Old City. A book review.
Mohammed El-Kurd, 14, narrates his experience of sharing his family home with the Jewish settlers who forcibly expelled the El-Kurds from the two-room extension they added in the 1990s.
A photo of the men of Silwan, photographed by iconic French photographer Félix Bonfils, c. 1890.
Tensions reach the boiling point in Jerusalem as Ben-Gvir announces home demolitions to continue during Ramadan.
An educator, political and social figure, and intellectual whose diary of over 3,000 pages covers 45 turbulent years in Jerusalem and Palestine in the early 20th century
A Jerusalem artist in exile whose predominant themes revolved around depicting the city of her birth
Street circus artist Ahmad Ju‘beh opens up about how he came to find his calling and what it means to him.
A photo album depicting the story of the Sabella family, part of the Jerusalem elite, before and after the 1948 War
A well-to-do Jerusalem family was made refugees overnight in 1948; they lost everything but tenaciously remained in their city and gradually rebuilt.
A conversation with Adalah’s legal director, Suhad Bishara, about Israel’s plan to relegate the Salah al-Din Street commercial district to irrelevance
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
Rinad’s story shows how closure steals time, lives, and livelihoods, and robs Palestinians like her of the chance to enjoy and engage with their own city.
A glimpse of Jerusalem at the point when the New City was just beginning to breach the walls of the Old City