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Jerusalem as a Divided & Occupied City, Issue 39

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Editorial

Conflict in Cities and the Contested State

Editorial
Several articles in this issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly are devoted to an examination of the nature of Jerusalem as a divided city. It is based on the work of a five-year British research project entitled Conflict in Cities and the Contested State based in the Universities of Cambridge, Exeter and Queen’s University, Belfast.1 The project does not look at any or every kind of divided city. The ...more

Michael Dumper
There is a false dichotomy at the heart of the debate over the binational versus the two-state models in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The dichotomy is based on the view that the two models are wholly separate and clearly defined types when in f ...more
Craig Larkin & Michael Dumper
In Jerusalem’s Old City, religious sites and excavation projects have become increasingly significant scenes for political confrontation, as Israelis and Palestinians contest historical narratives, legal authority and territorial rights. Although mu ...more
Wendy Pullan & Maximilian Gwiazda
Amongst Jerusalem’s many venerated and contested sites, the City of David, just south of the Old City, stands out for the speed with which it has recently become the centre of national and international attention. This fame has developed along two p ...more
Wendy Pullan
Jerusalem is regarded as one of the classic divided cities,1 contested by two peoples, separated by ethnicity, nationality, language and religion, with concrete and visible fissures embedded in the urban fabric. The terminology is widely used, by th ...more
Wendy Pullan & Lefkos Kyriacou
During the early years of the British Mandate period, the Pro-Jerusalem Society was established by British planners and architects in order to introduce Western style heritage procedures and produce plans for Jerusalem.1 The Society desired to prese ...more
Nitin Sawhney, Raed Yacoub & Julie Norman
Lamees picks up her digital camera and tries again to capture a shot of the cascading homes in Shu’fat refugee camp, oblivious to the trucks rushing past her in the dusty road behind. The ten year old shows her photo to Anne, who asks Lamees what st ...more

Film Documentary

Craig Larkin
In 2007, Lord Ashdown complied an investigative documentary for Channel 4, ‘The Battle for the Holy Land: Jerusalem’ exploring and analysing the historical, religious and political claims to the sacred city and possibilities for Jerusalem’s future s ...more

Book Reviews

Craig Larkin
The dynamic (re)imagining of Jerusalem, as the epicentre of the Islamic world – in creation, apocalyptic judgement and violent religious struggle (Jihad) – is the focus of Yitzhak Reiter’s latest work, Jerusalem and Its Role in Islamic Solidarity (2 ...more
Maximilian Gwiazda
Simone Ricca’s study of the rebuilding of the Jewish Quarter presents the first critical account of this key episode in Israeli architecture and its role in the urban reconfiguration of Jerusalem since 1967. This multidisciplinary investigation is a ...more
Marian Houk
Two extended Palestinian families consisting of fifty-three members were evicted at gunpoint at dawn by Israeli Police and Border Police from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah area of East Jerusalem, about a kilometer north of the Old City, in early ...more
Asem Khalidi
Following my essay on the the Mamilla Cemetry (“A Buried History” JQ 37: 104-109) the “Museum of Tolerance” has proceeded relentlessly. In November 2008, the Israeli Supreme Court authorized the building of the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem on to ...more
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