Memoirs

Journal Article A Palestinian Historian Remembers His Jerusalem Childhood

Historian Nazmi Jubeh recalls growing up in Arab Jerusalem in the 1960s and the changes to the city after 1967.

Journal Article Memories of Communal Relations in Jerusalem prior to 1948

Three Palestinians remember their childhoods in cosmopolitan Jerusalem prior to 1948

Bio Issa Boullata

An accomplished scholar of Arabic and Islamic studies and award-winning translator who traced his creative talent to his Jerusalem childhood

Bio Tawfiq Canaan

An epidemiologist, ethnographer, and institution builder who made foundational contributions to medicine and health care in Jerusalem and Palestine

Bio Hala Sakakini

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