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Land and Space
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Access, Mobility, and Fragmentation
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Status, Voice, and Governance
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Home, Family, Mind, and Soul
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Community Capacity
What happens when the state all but decrees that life itself is not permitted? This is the situation that Palestinian residents of al-Nabi Samwil find themselves in.
What happens when a suburb’s source of life and livelihood is choked off? The story of Bir Nabala offers a stark example.
The wall destroyed the towns of ‘Anata and Bir Nabala by blocking their residents and severing them from their surroundings.
Jerusalem’s eastern Palestinian towns, including al-‘Izariyya and Abu Dis, have been completely separated from one another and from Jerusalem by the Separation Wall.
A young pregnant woman summons inner strength to get around a checkpoint while on the verge of giving birth.
Punctuality is required for teachers. For one Jerusalem teacher living behind the checkpoint, a drastic life change was the only solution.
When she married at 18, Ayah hoped to expand her world. She soon found that her range of motion did not extend beyond the nearest checkpoint.
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.