Bios

Palestinian Jerusalemites have made myriad and diverse contributions to their city’s history and community fabric. Here we profile some of those people—past and present; famous and obscure—whose lives and work and stories have helped shape the larger Jerusalem Story over time.

Education Elizabeth Nasir

An educator and social worker who founded a school for destitute girls and was fondly recalled as the “patron of us poor people”

Suhail Khoury

A musician with a passion for Mozart and Palestine

Jumana El Husseini

A Jerusalem artist in exile whose predominant themes revolved around depicting the city of her birth

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Health and Health Care Georgette Rizek

An activist who lived through the Nakba and founded and directed the Infant Welfare Center, the first medical center in the Old City of Jerusalem

Khalil Raad

A prolific photographer whose body of work documented daily life in Jerusalem over six decades