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One cup at a time: how a tiny café tells untold stories of loss, endurance, and survival.
A tour in Jerusalem’s Old City evokes a sense of grandiose and wonder.
Budour Hassan, legal expert on Jerusalem, is angered by conditions in her city.
Jerusalem’s students get an opportunity to develop their neuroscientific research skills and shine.
Empowering innovation and entrepreneurship
Residents now require permission from Israeli security to enter and leave their own villages.
A Palestinian village enclaved by walls yet rooted in centuries of history and resilience
An ancient, proud village northwest of Jerusalem is rendered near-unlivable.
A welcoming space for women of all ages in Sheikh Jarrah, cherished for more than a century.
The times remain heavy for Christians in Jerusalem, but they find comfort in December by connecting over an ancient festival.
The author attempts to reclaim her family’s history in the Mamilla area of Jerusalem before the Nakba scattered them.
Musrara, a formerly New City neighborhood founded by Palestinians, had a unique fate in 1948.
A survey of the myriad array of mechanisms of displacement aimed at Silwan and its residents
Author, diplomat, and influential historian of Arab nationalism
Over 200 released Palestinians remain in limbo in Egypt, stateless and without their families.
Are children’s dreams a threat to the state?
Anti-Palestinian violence in the city spreads to new realms, with ominous implications.
A shining example of genuine community-based restoration work in the fraught political Jerusalem landscape
Jerusalem’s students get an opportunity to develop their neuroscientific research skills and shine.
In 2024, violent attacks by religious Jews against Christians increased, especially in Jerusalem.
A founder of the Palestinian nationalist movement; a devout, diplomatic, and popular leader who spent much of his career in exile
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
An interactive map of Jerusalem as divided by the Green Line of 1949
Who’s staying firmly rooted in Jerusalem, and who’s leaving?
Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led Jewish visitors in prayer next to the Dome of the Rock in early August 2025, marking a dramatic change to the Status Quo arrangements.
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.
How Israel is ramping up the pressure on Palestinian Jerusalemites in the classroom
A leader in the Great Palestinian Revolt who was killed defending his city of Jerusalem on the eve of the Nakba
Palestinian Jerusalemites are indigenous natives who enjoyed full citizenship rights and whose international rights were profoundly violated when Israel denationalized them as it established its state. A conversation with international law expert Susan Akram.
A collaboration becomes a symbiosis.
In 1900, Jerusalemites felt they were part of a city whose municipality was improving their quality of life in measurable ways. A book review.