The Status Quo agreement on Jerusalem’s holy sites, enacted in the Ottoman era, seeks to prevent conflict between religious groups. Increasingly, it is being violated.
A newly renovated museum in Jerusalem’s Old City explores 3,000 years of Armenian art, culture, and history.
Philip Farah hasn’t lived in Jerusalem since 1978, but it remains “a huge part of my psyche.”
A historian, archeologist, and expert on Palestinian cultural heritage and its preservation, with special expertise on Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron
Izzeldin Bukhari founded Sacred Cuisine to celebrate Palestinian culinary heritage and his city, Jerusalem, and to express the essence of his Sufi religion, which views feeding others as a form of love.
The Khalidi Library, founded and maintained by the Khalidis, a Jerusalemite family with centuries of history in the city, is a local treasure.
A look back at Jerusalem’s rulers since ancient times and the city’s population based on more recent censuses
A recent book describes the cultural heritage of the depopulated Jerusalem village of Lifta and the struggle of its displaced residents to thwart state plans to erase its remains.
An inventory of Palestinian villages in the Jerusalem area pre-1948 and their erasure and replacement