Family History

Photo Essay The Said Family of Jerusalem: Denied Return to Their Home in Talbiyya, Perpetual Trauma in Exile

One Jerusalem family’s story: the Nakba and its aftermath

Feature Story Settlers Fail at Brazen Attempt to Seize Historic Khalidi Home

Khalidi family wins rare court decision against settlers, but what does it portend?

Feature Story The Nusseibeh Family: Khazraj Roots That Grew and Blossomed in Jerusalem

A conversation with the Nusseibehs about their family’s centuries of history in and contributions to Jerusalem

Journal Article Wadi al-Joz: In Focus

The families that made Wadi al-Joz their home and the efforts to remove the area’s industrial zone in the 1980s

Personal Story The Hammoudi Family and the Loss of a Jerusalem Home: One Family’s Multigenerational Longing

The pain of collective trauma as experienced by successive generations: A Jerusalem family’s story.

Personal Story Issa Boullata and the Childhood Memories of Jerusalem That Never Faded

An acclaimed academic, writer, and translator recalls his Old City childhood

 

Armenian ceramic pottery
Video Hagop Karakashian on How the Art of Armenian Ceramics—Unique to Jerusalem—Came to Be

Hagop Karakashian’s grandfather was one of a trio of artists who originated the art of Armenian ceramics in the city of Jerusalem over a century ago. How did this come about?

Personal Story The Mukhtar and I: A Day with My Grandfather in the Old City

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.

Scene from the video “What Have I Forgotten to Tell You?” featuring Abla Dajani
Video “What Have I Forgotten to Tell You?” Featuring Abla Dajani

Palestinian Jerusalemite Abla Dajani pays a bittersweet visit to her family home in al-Baq‘a, West Jerusalem, which was seized by Israel in 1948 and given to Jewish ownership.