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What’s it like to live behind a military checkpoint in your own city?
The right to medical treatment and even to relieve oneself are compromised by Israeli checkpoints, especially when extended closures are enforced.
The Armenian community’s concerns escalate over repeated police interference on the ground without legal authorization.
Armenians have centuries of history in Jerusalem and have made important contributions to the city’s societal and cultural fabric.
A newly renovated museum in Jerusalem’s Old City explores 3,000 years of Armenian art, culture, and history.
“All we talk about is the house”—A timeline showing how a Palestinian home in what became West Jerusalem was confiscated and passed to Jewish ownership and its origins erased
The pain of collective trauma as experienced by successive generations: A Jerusalem family’s story.
Palestinian authors describe Jerusalemites and their struggles to navigate their daily lives despite crushing Israeli colonial practices. A book review.
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.”
Jerusalem was once a vibrant regional hub with a dynamic civil society, but its natural evolution was abruptly halted by the cataclysm of 1948. A book review.
The crisis in Gaza is providing cover for the expansion of Israeli settlements in Silwan.
Israel is rapidly advancing settlement plans across East Jerusalem; 2023 seems sure to be a record-breaking year.
A new Jewish settlement in the heart of Palestinian Ras al-Amud hurtles rapid-fire toward approval.
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including children, face excruciating conditions in Israeli prisons.
A deep sadness cloaked the city, but the Eid al-Fitr rites were observed, including visiting the dead and saying prayers for their souls.
Jerusalemites observed Easter and Eid al-Fitr during the same week, but a deep sadness hung over the city.
Jerusalem’s Holy Basin is a microcosm of Israel’s settler-colonial agenda in the city and the country.
What’s it like to live behind a military checkpoint in your own city?
For Palestinian Jerusalemites, the city’s first luxury hotel will always be linked to a terrorist act that signaled the end of their lives in Jerusalem.
The Armenian community’s concerns escalate over repeated police interference on the ground without legal authorization.
Nowhere can you find barazeq as scrumptious as you find it in Jerusalem during Ramadan.
A quick guide to the often-confusing gates to the Old City of Jerusalem
“Everybody will be able to come to Jerusalem from anywhere they want and celebrate in Jerusalem.”
Jerusalemites observed Easter and Eid al-Fitr during the same week, but a deep sadness hung over the city.
The pain of collective trauma as experienced by successive generations: A Jerusalem family’s story.
How Israel razed an 800-year-old historic Muslim neighborhood in the dead of night within hours of occupying East Jerusalem
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including children, face excruciating conditions in Israeli prisons.
The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has historically been the northern gateway to the Old City and a home to powerful Palestinian families and consulates.
An educator, political and social figure, and intellectual whose diary of over 3,000 pages covers 45 turbulent years in Jerusalem and Palestine in the early 20th century
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
Palestinians with Jordanian passports question, how permanent is “temporary?”
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.