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.

Khalil Raad

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

Nahil Bishara

One of the few female artists who depicted Jerusalem in the mid-20th century

The West Side Story Hanna Safieh

Among the first Jerusalemites to use a camera professionally to document key historical events as well as everyday life in pre-1948 Palestine and beyond

Find alphabetically by first letter of last name

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