Displacement

Blog Post The Aftermath of a Home Demolition

A visit with the Ayed brothers two weeks after their homes were forcibly flattened

Blog Post Musrara Café across from Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate Faces Closure

A lifetime family business is forcibly terminated by the state.

Jerusalemite siblings Teddy and Nadia Theodorie in the library in their Bethlehem home
Video On a Winter’s Night

While looking at family photos, siblings Teddy and Nadia Theodorie recall their displacement from Talbiyya in 1948.

Screenshot from the YouTube video, “What’s The Story? Yacoub Ahmad Odeh in Lifta”
Video What’s the Story? Yacoub Ahmad Odeh in Lifta

“We lived here like kings”: Yacoub Ahmad Odeh fights Israeli plans to turn the depopulated village of Lifta into a new Jewish settlement.

Michel Hamarneh, born in Jerusalem in 1935, a character in the film My Jerusalem: Testimonial to life in Jerusalem before 1948 by Lubna Dajani
Video My Jerusalem: Testimonial to Life in Jerusalem before 1948

Jerusalemites born in the 1920s and 1930s recount their memories of growing up in Jerusalem and what they lost when they were forced to leave in 1948.

Photo Album 1948 and Beyond: The Ongoing Palestinian Displacement

A pictorial journey of Palestinian displacement over generations