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Jerusalem Childhoods,Issue 37

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Editorial

Childhood Miseryas a Trope forRedemption

The war of 1948 did not only engender a radical rupture in Palestine’s social fabric, but it was also marks a watershed in the way the past is remembered. The reconstruction of childhood, using memory as the primary source is always problematic, but in the case of Palestine it is compounded by the perspective of exile. In childhood autobiographical narratives, moreover, we capture many divisions ...more

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Serene Husseini Shahid
When I was about eight , I was sent to the girls’ school, a Islamiyya, which had recently been opened by the majlis el islami al-al’la (the Higher Islamic Council). With its emphasis on general education and sciences-rather than on the languages, mu ...more
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
At school I saw the students writing. Each of them took his lead pencil, opened his copybook, and wrote on the ruled white paper. They raised their heads and looked beyond the teacher’s head to the board, which was made of pieces of wood in a square ...more
Issa Boullata
Jerusalem 1929. Issa Boullata 5 months old. Source: Issa J. Boullata collection. My First School “Good morning, children,” Sitt Alexandra said as she stood on the landing at the top of the long external flight of stairs leading to the classroo ...more
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
My Boyhood 1904-1914 I obviously do not recall any memories from the second phase of my childhood, except for me standing by the dinner table, unable to catch sight of anything but some of the fruits which my father used to buy and lay on the tabl ...more
Mahmoud Shukair
Jerusalem and Ramallah had a strong influence on me during my childhood years. How I loved those two cities! Jerusalem was the first city I ever laid eyes on. My father took me with him several times, always on Fridays when he went to buy things f ...more
Laure Bjawi-Levine
“My heart is Palestinian, my passport is Jordanian,” answered M’hmed, an 11 year-old refugee boy, as I was asking a group of Palestinian children and adolescents in Jordan what was their nationality. Khaled, a twelve year old also a mukhayyamji1, sa ...more
Julie Peteet
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of popular Palestinian-Israeli-international, village-level protests over the Israeli wall and its encroachment on Palestinian territory, rights, and resources in the West Bank. This paper retrieves Mary ...more
Rema Hammami
No life is long enough for me to join me from my end to my beginning The shepherds took my story and hid it in the grass covering the magic debris where tents once stood And like this with trumpets and choral rhymes they cheated oblivion (Mahmou ...more
Asem Khalidi
The shocked and appalled Jerusalemites and members of the Islamic Waqf gathering the scattered bones left by Israeli parking lot workers in Mamilla, the historic cemetery in the western section of Jerusalem (1967). Source: Memoirs of Anwar al-Kh ...more
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