A rare view of Jerusalem as it appeared at the moment of transition from Ottoman to British rule, in the early 1920s
An interactive map of Jerusalem during the period of the British Mandate
A prolific photographer whose body of work documented daily life in Jerusalem over six decades
The trauma of losing home and familiar ways of being in the world lingered with author Nina Bazouzi Cullers for decades after her family left Qatamon for the Old City. A book review.
Matthew Teller’s biography of Jerusalem’s Old City offers history as well as the lived experience of today’s Palestinian residents. A book review.
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
A prolific diarist offers a glimpse of Jerusalem’s multi-confessional social traditions in the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods.