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Tens of thousands of Palestinians are under siege, rendering life exceedingly difficult.
A glimpse of the daily contortions that Palestinians endure to move about
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.
Rainfall is a blessing and a curse in East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem residents pay taxes to Israel and are supposed to get services in return. Instead they were abandoned.
Palestinians in the Old City are forced to do without Israeli systems and institutions, so they rely on each other to survive.
The grinding reality of home demolitions in one Jerusalem neighborhood. A Photo Story.
An illegal landfill burns, polluting lungs, homes, and the environment due to the municipality’s neglect.
Jerusalemites loved to explore and photograph the great outdoors with family members and friends.
How early 20th-century Palestinian childhood was informed by rituals and oral tradition
Reviving the straw art of her grandparents’ generation
Amer Hlehel calls for financial support for El-Hakawati.
The Basha family is being forcibly expelled from their home in the Old City by settler groups backed by Israeli courts.
Four Palestinian graduates of Al-Quds University contribute to knowledge of a rare and serious disease.
Massive dislocation and geospatial alterations expected for Palestinians in the central West Bank
A new bill is being fast-tracked, with dire implications for Palestinians.
An insidious practice that increasingly targets religious authorities
Israel destroys UNRWA’s headquarters.
Traces of Presence: Exploring memory through art
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
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
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.
The oldest family-run business in the Old City
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 founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
What does Jerusalem mean to Palestinians who identify as Jerusalemites? We posed this question to more than a dozen Jerusalemites worldwide.
A prolific photographer whose body of work documented daily life in Jerusalem over six decades
Who’s staying firmly rooted in Jerusalem, and who’s leaving?
The smells of Ramadan and Lent meals suffuse the Old City this year, intoxicating the senses and tantalizing those who are fasting.
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.