Matthew Teller’s biography of Jerusalem’s Old City goes beyond the surface to offer history as well as the lived experience of its Palestinian residents today.
A physician and politician from Jerusalem who played a central role in the Palestinian nationalist movement and left a copious record of it all.
A Jerusalemite jurist and lawyer who wrote widely on the status of Jerusalem and the Palestinian claim to Palestine
A Palestinian Russian woman who worked for the British and Jordanian authorities, demanded political change, and established workshops for destitute women
How the New City came to an abrupt and violent end
In the face of rising Jewish immigration, Jewish self-separation, and the looming end of the British Mandate, Jerusalem began to implode, placing the New City in peril.
A vivid memoir attesting to what it was like to live through the violent transformation of the New City of Jerusalem into West Jerusalem in 1947–48
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
Jerusalem-born filmmaker Mahasen Nasser-Eldin on restoring historical pictures to tell stories about Palestinian women and Palestinian history