Kamal Boullata’s art reflects his exile and longing for the light of Jerusalem.
We pay a visit to a master storyteller in his lifelong Jerusalem home.
An utterance during a prayer leads to detention and banishment.
What do Jerusalemites who were forced to leave their homes in 1948 tell their descendants about the place they lost?
A foremost authority on Palestinian land ownership before 1948 who provided future generations with crucial documentation on the Nakba and Palestinian refugees
A religious and legal scholar and nationalist who was the first Palestinian Israel exiled from Jerusalem in 1967
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.