A Palestinian Jerusalemite remembers his childhood and its terrifying end in the New City neighborhood of Qatamon. An eyewitness testimony to the violent end of the New City.
Jerusalem’s New City was violently transformed and severed from the rest of Jerusalem, its Palestinian inhabitants exiled and banned from returning to this day.
Who lived in the New City Palestinian neighborhood of Qatamon, which ceased to exist as such after 1948?
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 woman’s attempt to reconcile her English and Palestinian identities leads her to Jerusalem to search for the Qatamon home her family left in 1948. A book review.
A glimpse back in time to life and boyhood in pre-Nakba Jerusalem
A Palestinian woman returns to Jerusalem to rediscover and reclaim her mother’s city for her.
Musrara, a formerly New City neighborhood founded by Palestinians, had a unique fate in 1948.