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Spring 2010, Issue 41 |
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Editorial |
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Hebron’s qasabah is at once one of the richest historical urban centres in the Arab east, and one of the least examined in the scholarly literature. Chiara De Cesari’s study in this issue of JQ explores what she calls “heritage politics in a lacerated space,” examining the colonial project of dismemberment (settler attempts to establish an Israeli enclave in the heart of the city) as well as the
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Features
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Hebron, or Heritage as Technology of Life
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Chiara De Cesari
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When I think of Hebron (in Arabic Al-Khalil, “the friend”), it brings to mind an image sketched by the late artist Hasan Hourani, born and raised in one of the tall stone houses so typical of the Old City. In this poetic representation of the city,
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Qalandiya:Jerusalem’s Tora Bora and the Frontiers of Global Inequality
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Rema Hammami
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Heat, wind, dust, garbage. Cars stuck in line, jammed bumper to bumper – probably a two- hour wait. I squeeze through the few inches between an articulated lorry and the next car. On the other side is a porter shifting two television sets tied to hi
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Dining Out inTimes of War: Jerusalem 1914-1918
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Roberto Mazza
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Antonio de la Cierva y Lewita, Conde de Ballobar, served as consul in Jerusalem from 1914 to 1918 leaving behind a diary which has proved to an invaluable source of information on war-time Jerusalem, its population, Ottoman and British administratio
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Remembering Haret al-Nammamreh
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Jacob Nammar
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On a dark, moonless, late summer, Al Quds lay quiet and cold. The stillness of the night was broken by my footsteps as I headed home, and by the murmur of the cool breeze as it drifted, whispering through the leaves of the olive trees that grew up a
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Cats of Jerusalem
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Basem Raad
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The solitariness of cats in Jerusalem, their scruffiness, their wariness, the mode of their survival in a city that is holy and not holy, how they mirror the old city’s insular nature, its current predicament, and the people’s life in that situation
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