Hala Sakakini, an author who grew up in Qatamon with her family, wrote about her childhood and her neighborhood in her memoir, Jerusalem and I. In it, she sketched this map of the neighborhood as she recalled it later in Heliopolis, Egypt, in 1950.
Hala Sakakini, an author who grew up in Qatamon with her family, wrote about her childhood and her neighborhood in her memoir, Jerusalem and I. In it, she sketched this map of the neighborhood as she recalled it later in Heliopolis, Egypt, in 1950.
The author recalls her happy years attending Schmidt’s School, before the Nakba, her brief visit years later, and what it meant to her.
Mounir Kleibo, former ILO Special Representative, tells the story of his mother’s family home in Lower Baq‘a in today’s West Jerusalem.