Ida Audeh is an editor who lives in Virginia. Her review of Anan Ameri’s The Wandering Palestinian: A Memoir was published in Journal of Palestine Studies 50, no. 3 (2021).
The Jerusalem YMCA was the social, athletic, and cultural hub for Jerusalemites during the British Mandate years.
This definitive history of Jerusalem’s iconic Moroccan Quarter explains its significance over centuries, how Israel destroyed it overnight, and why it still matters. A book review.
A collection of 44 essays and poems brings to life the voices of Jerusalem’s indigenous Palestinian community and the visitors who encountered them.
Colonial Jerusalem, written by Thomas Abowd in 2014, seems more relevant today than ever. A book review.
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.
Philip Farah hasn’t lived in Jerusalem since 1978, but it remains “a huge part of my psyche.”
Matthew Teller’s biography of Jerusalem’s Old City offers history as well as the lived experience of today’s Palestinian residents.
We review the book Feast of Ashes, by Sato Moughalian, which chronicles the origins of the Armenian ceramic tradition in Jerusalem, first introduced there by the author’s grandfather, a refugee from the Armenian genocide.
Silwan’s children are systematically attacked and terrorized to pressure families to leave the area, but the community is rallying to protect them.