A pictorial journey of Palestinian displacement over generations
The author recalls her happy years attending Schmidt’s School, before the Nakba, her brief visit years later, and what it meant to her.
An acclaimed academic, writer, and translator recalls his Old City childhood
There are 5.9 million registered Palestinian refugees with the UNRWA, and they continue to have a unique status under international law.
An accomplished scholar of Arabic and Islamic studies and award-winning translator who traced his creative talent to his Jerusalem childhood
Mounir Kleibo, former ILO Special Representative, tells the story of his mother’s family home in Lower Baq‘a in today’s West Jerusalem.
Palestinian Jerusalemite Abla Dajani pays a bittersweet visit to her family home in al-Baq‘a, West Jerusalem, which was seized by Israel in 1948 and given to Jewish ownership.
Huda Imam is banned from entering the home her father built in Qatamon before 1948, but that does not stop her from standing outside it weekly.