Mai reflects on her reasons for applying for Israeli citizenship and the psychological and emotional cost of that decision.
Betty Majaj, a nurse in Jerusalem, lived through the demise of the New City and its reincarnation into West Jerusalem. This is her story.
Jacob Nammar, whose family established the al-Nammamreh neighborhood in al-Baq‘a, shares the trauma his family went through in what became West Jerusalem.
A survivor of the Deir Yasin massacre recalls that dark day, its cost for his family, and its aftermath.
A Palestinian educator and writer who wrote an iconic, vivid narrative recounting her family’s exile from Qatamon and Jerusalem in 1948
A photo album of the Meo family business, a Jerusalemite Old City landmark for 124 years
A photo album depicting the story of the Sabella family, part of the Jerusalem elite, before and after the 1948 War
A Palestinian American psychologist who was born and raised in Jerusalem had his residency revoked when he advocated nonviolence in Palestine in 1987–88.
A well-to-do Jerusalem family was made refugees overnight in 1948; they lost everything but tenaciously remained in their city and gradually rebuilt.