A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
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.
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.
Philip Farah hasn’t lived in Jerusalem since 1978, but it remains “a huge part of my psyche.”
A prolific novelist who was exiled from Jerusalem for almost two decades, yet says “Jerusalem is a part of me and I am part of Jerusalem.”
A professor of Islamic literature who returned to his birthplace, Jerusalem, after 25 years of exile to serve as the first president of Al-Quds University
A Jerusalem artist in exile whose predominant themes revolved around depicting the city of her birth
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