Bios

A beloved community leader who helped to internationalize the cause of Palestinians of African descent

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

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

Lionized preacher of al-Aqsa Mosque and former grand mufti of Jerusalem who embodies Palestinian steadfastness

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

A Palestinian educator and writer who wrote an iconic, vivid narrative recounting her family’s exile from Qatamon and Jerusalem in 1948

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 prominent Palestinian educator, women’s rights activist, and nationalist

A religious and legal scholar and nationalist who was the first Palestinian Israel exiled from Jerusalem in 1967

A Palestinian woman who preserved the living memory of the Jerusalem she grew up in through her embroidery and her acclaimed autobiography, Jerusalem Memories

A fierce feminist Jerusalemite who devoted her life to advocating for women and supporting the national cause

A prolific novelist who was exiled from Jerusalem for almost two decades, yet says “Jerusalem is a part of me and I am part of Jerusalem.”