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.
A Palestinian Jerusalemite’s memories of growing up in Jerusalem before the Nakba, as shared with her daughter through letters in later years
Before 1948, Jerusalem was not split between an “East” and a “West.” Rather, a cosmopolitan, multiethnic New City grew organically out of the Old City.