There are 5.9 million registered Palestinian refugees with the UNRWA, and they continue to have a unique status under international law.
A Palestinian in exile remembers Jerusalem’s Old City—the sights and sounds, the tight-knit community—during his last days with his formidable grandfather, the Mukhtar.
This definitive history of Jerusalem’s iconic Moroccan Quarter explains its significance over centuries, how Israel destroyed it overnight, and why it still matters. A book review.
A notable Palestinian educator who worked tirelessly to preserve the Arab curriculum in East Jerusalem after 1967
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
An innocent question posed in good faith changes a family’s legal status and that of all its descendants.
A Palestinian physician and public servant who was the “father of pediatrics in Jerusalem”
A nurse from Lebanon who married a Jerusalemite and moved to the city right before the Nakba and embraced the responsibilities thrust upon her for caring for the sick, wounded, and disabled of the city over decades
An activist who lived through the Nakba and founded and directed the Infant Welfare Center, the first medical center in the Old City of Jerusalem