Nakba

A Palestinian man, Mohammed Saleh, from al-Maliha near Jerusalem shares his Nakba testimony, 2016.
Video Mohammed Saleh: “I Feel like a Stranger in My Own Country”

Mohammed Saleh recalls his life in al-Maliha before 1948.

Blog Post Sundos al-Rajabi Uses Art to Eternalize Jerusalem’s Depopulated Palestinian Villages

Depopulated, but never forgotten

Journal Article Childhood Memories of Jerusalem and Ramallah

A Jerusalem novelist recalls his childhood in Jerusalem and Ramallah

Personal Story My Family Home in Qatamon: Past and Present

The author recalls his father’s memories of his longed-for Qatamon home.

Photo A Palestinian Woman Faces Brutality with Dignity

A defiant rebuke

Blog Post A Testament to a City Lost and a Time Erased: A Syrian Woman Remembers the Jerusalem of Her Childhood

A Syrian woman recalls her Jerusalem childhood during the last years of the Colonial British Mandate. A book review.

Bio Abd al-Qader al-Husseini

A leader in the Great Palestinian Revolt who was killed defending his city of Jerusalem on the eve of the Nakba

Blog Post Memories of an Open Jerusalem

A family story from the Nakba reveals how Jerusalem has been transformed.

Graphic Kamal Boullata’s Deir Yassin—1948

Commemorating a tragic anniversary