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Issue 32, Fall 2007

Issue 31, Summer 2007

Issue 30 Spring 2007
My Grandmother and Other Stories
Sheikh Hassan al-Labadi: Seven Acts of Lost Memory
The Short Life of Private Ihsan: Jerusalem 1915
From Seferberlik to the Nakba: A Personal Account of the Life of Zahra al-Ja’uniyya
Sa’id Nimr’s Stormy Career:From the Dungeons of Istanbul to the Ranks of Faisal’s Arab Army
Talbiyeh Days: At Villa Harun ar-Rashid
A Palestinian in Dhahiat al-Barid Records a Life Transformed
March - August 2007

Winter 2007 Issue 29
Theft in Full View of the Law
In the City of David: How Jerusalem of the Bible is reshaping the city of today
Prisoner of War: Yusif Sayigh, 1948 to 1949

Excerpts from his recollections


Fall 2006 Issue 28
Modernity and Memory
The Hijaz-Palestine Railway and the Development of Haifa
Re-examining Egyptian Rule: Who laid the foundations for modern statehood in Palestine?
Occidental Obsessions: Diary of a Country Doctor

Summer 2006, Issue 27
Of Significant Lives, and Better Days
Body and Ideology: Early Athletics in Palestine (1900 - 1948)
The Israeli ‘Place’ in East Jerusalem: How Israeli architects appropriated the Palestinian aesthetic after the ’67 War
The Time the Peasants Entered Jerusalem: The revolt against Ibrahim Pasha in the Islamic court sources
Jerusalem’s Shifting Demographic Profile: A statistical reading of the city’s demographic map
Advocacy and Space in Ethnographic Writing

Issue 26 Spring 2006
The Israeli High Court’s Descent Into Primitive Tribalism
Understanding Hamas’ Victory in Jerusalem: “The Last Bullet in the Palestinian Rifle”
The Wall in Jerusalem: “Military Conquest by Architectural Means”
Courtship in Ottoman Jerusalem: The Intimate Correspondence of Alphonse and Afifeh
Al-Manara Square: Monumental Architecture and Power
Cherezli’s El Paradizo: Before Modern Hebrew Became the National Language of the Jews
Uncle Vanya Lived Upstairs: Amos Oz's Provincial Jerusalem
Jerusalem Diary

Winter 2006, Issue 25
Palestinian Cultural Expression through Political Turmoil
Performing Palestine: Resisting the Occupation and Reviving Jerusalem’s Social and Cultural Identity through Music and the Arts
The Right of Return of Displaced Jerusalemites: A Reminder of the Principles and Precedents of International Law
Toward the Promised Land: Nikos Kazantzakis Journeys to Jerusalem
The Poetic Expression of a Political Man
Poetry of Rebellion: The Life, Verse and Death of Nuh Ibrahim during the 1936-39 Revolt

Summer 2005
The Israeli Agenda for Jerusalem
Putting out Jerusalem’s Fires
Civil defense under Jordan and Israel
The New Palestinian Globalized Elite
A Review of Israeli Settlements Underway
Heritage, Nationalism and the Shifting Symbolism of the Wailing Wall
Plant-Lore in Palestinian Superstition
An Ottoman Bismarck from Jerusalem: Yusuf Diya’ al-Khalidi (1842-1906)
Report on Gilo

Double Edition 22 & 23
Jerusalem Land Grab Schemes and the Democratic Credentials of Natan Sharansky
Breathing Life into a Dead Horse
Jerusalem identity card holders ponder a future behind or in front of the wall
On the Importance of Thugs
The moral economy of a checkpoint
The Exile and the Pilgrim
A screening of "Ticket to Jerusalem" in Baddawi Camp, Lebanon
Freemasonry in Ottoman Palestine
Ma’ruf Ar-Rusafi in Jerusalem
Un-inventing the Bab al-Khalil tombs
Between the magic of legend and historical fact
Jerusalem’s Islamic Archives Sources for the Question of the Waqf in the Ottoman period
Maqdisi: An 11th Century Palestinian Consciousness
On Breaking Bread and Stones
A Review of the Literature of International Peace Teams in Palestine
Magic and Talismans
The Tawfiq Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets
Between Jerusalem and Damascus
The End of Ottoman Rule as Seen by a Palestinian Modernist
Jerusalem Chronology

August 2004, Issue 21
When Native Jews Ceased to be Arabs
Palestine in Lebanon
The Politics and Poetics of Place: The Baramki House
Ishaq al-Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine
Alternative Voices in Late Ottoman Palestine A Historical Note
The Valero Family Sephardi-Arab Relations in Ottoman and Mandatory Jerusalem
Paradise and Gehenna Keep Close Company in the Sanctuary of God
Out of the Shadows The Photography and Film of Akram Safadi
Women of "Good Family"
(February 2004 - August 2004)

January 2004, Issue 20
The Geneva Accords and Their Critics
Khalil Sakakini's Ottoman Prison Diaries
Lepers, Lunatics and Saints The Nativist Ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and his Jerusalem Circle
A Letter to a Friend
"Gray and sober Jerusalem"
"This is Radio Jerusalem…1936"
The Distracted Sufi The Naqshabandi tariqa in Jerusalem
Peasant Narratives Memorial Book Sources for Jerusalem Village History
Jerusalem in the Heart Two urban artists in exile
(October - January 2004)

October 2003 ,Issue 19
A New Direction for Palestinian Nationalism?
In Their Image
The Vagabond Café and Jerusalem's Prince of Idleness
Old Wine in New Bottles
Re-establishing the Angle
The Digital Temple Mount
Tracing the Path of Living Stones
(June - September, 2003)

June 2003, Issue 18
Berlin in Jerusalem
Haj Amin and the Buraq Revolt
Bab al-Magharibah: Joha's Nail in the Haram al-Sharif
An Interrupted Landscape: Tracing Jerusalem's New Walls
The Wasif Jawharieh Photographic Collection
The Last Migration? Jerusalem's Gypsy Community
Palestine's Unknowable Lives
With Eyes That Can See
Jerusalem Chronology .

February 2003, Issue 17
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JQF as a Dangerous Weapon
In Search of Fatima Fateful Days in 1948
A Miserable Year in Brooklyn Khalil Sakakini in America, 1907 - 1908
Holy Land Travel and the American Covenant th Century Palestine in the Settler-Colonial Imagination
The Arab Community of Safad 1840 - 1918 A Critical Period
Jerusalem Chronology
Poverty in Jerusalem
Between Many Jerusalems

November 2002,Issue 16
The Final Encirclement of a City?
The Ghettoization of Arab Jerusalem
Tawfiq Canaan: His Life and Works
The Last Feudal Lord in Palestine
Pilgrimage to a New Self: The African Quarter and its people
Ramallah Dada: The Reality of the Absurd
Xposure Jerusalem

Winter 2002,Issue 15
The Uses of Anti-Semitism
The Three Jerusalems: Planning and Colonial Control
The Writing on the Wall Language, Healing, and the Wild Man
A View from the New Gate
The Shop at Bab al-Khalil
The Fifth Gospel: Tarif Khalidi on Jesus in the "Muslim Gospel"
A Palestinian at Yad Vashem
The Streets of Nostalgia: A Journey in Jerusalem
Special Report: Second Track Negotiations: "The Jerusalem File"
Chronology of the West Bank Invasion (March 28 - April 23, 2002)

Autumn 2001, Issue 14
The Marginalization of Jerusalem in the al-Aqsa Intifada
The Sephardi Community in Pre-World War I Jerusalem
Mapping a Pilgrimage: The Accounts of an Armenian's Travels to the Holy Land
The Enigmatic Jerusalem Bolshevik: The Memoirs of Najati Siqi
Imprisoned by the Stereotypes of a Struggle Martyr's Crossing
Aug 1 - Oct31, 2001

Summer 2001, Issue 13
The Looted Archives of the Orient House
Waiting for Godot at Qualandia: Reflections on Queues and Inequality
Camp David, One Year Later: Old Myths and New
Ibrahim Dakkak Remembers
Israel Shahak
Jerusalem: Caught in Time
The Reality of Jerusalem's Palestinians Today
Al-Aqsa Mosque Library of al-Haram as-Sharif
May 1 - July 31, 2001
The History of Jewish Settlement in the Old City

Winter-Spring 2001, Issue 11-12
Funerals as Markers of Resistance: The Passing of Ibrahim Abu Lughod and Faisal al-Husseini
My Father's Return to Palestine
Mourning the 'Son of Jerusalem': Faisal al-Husseini
"Unnatural Vices" or Unnatural Rule? The Case of a Sex Questionnaire and the British Mandate
Jerusalem For Sale: Souvenirs, Tourists and the Old City
Khalil Raad - Jerusalem Photographer
A Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold: The Battle for Jerusalem in the Memoirs of Anwar Nusseibeh
The Husayni Family Faces New Challenges: Tanzimat, Young Turks, the Europeans and Zionism, 1840-1922, Part II
Time to Change: The European Role in Jerusalem
The Prospects for a Shared Jerusalem
The German Religious Properties in Jerusalem as Revealed in Ottoman Government Documents
The Jerusalem Municipal Library
Palestinian Urban Mansions: Memoirs Engraved in Stone by Diala Khasawneh
The Eloquence of Objects: The Hundred Martyrs Exhibit
November 2000 - April 2001

Autumn 2000, Issue 10
The Battle for Jerusalem
Negotiating Jerusalem
Health: A Right not a Favor
Jerusalem Memories
The Rise and Fall of the Husainis (Part 1)
Music in the Old City
Greater Jerusalem
August 2000 - October 2000

Summer 2000,Issue 9
Memoirs as History
Jerusalem's Ottoman Modernity: The Times and Lives of Wasif Jawhariyyeh
My Last Days as an Ottoman Subject
Fifteen Centuries and Still Counting—the Old City Armenians
Revoking Permanent Residency: a Legal Review of Israeli Policy
The Arab College in Jerusalem, 1918-1948: Recollections
The Library of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
Maundrell in Jerusalem: Reflections on the Writing of an Early European Tourist
May 2000 - July 2000

Spring 2000, Issue 8
American Chutzpah
Stacking the Deck: the Implications of the U.S. Embassy Relocation
The U.S. Embassy Move and Arab Property in West Jerusalem
Revitalizing the Old City
Jerusalem Passages
Jerusalem Witness: John Rose's Armenians of Jerusalem
The PLO-Vatican Agreement
Interview with Afif Safieh
The Church and the Status of Jerusalem
1 February 2000 - 30 April 2000

Winter 2000, Issue 7
The Burden of the Past
The Moroccan Quarter: A History of the Present
(Re)designing the City of David: Landscape, Narrative and Archaeology in Silwan
A Jerusalem Photographer: The Life and Work of Hanna Safieh
The Library of the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem
My Memories of Khassaki Sultan or "The Flourishing Edifice"
Martin Gilbert's Jerusalem
1 November 1999 - 30 January 2000

Autumn 1999, Issue 6
Framing Jerusalem
Visions of Peace, Realities of Occupation
Settling the Old City: the Policies of Labor and Likud
Shu'fat Camp: Life on the Edge for Jerusalem Refugees
The Arab Studies Society Library
Naser-e Khosraw's Journey to Jerusalem

Summer 1999, Issue 5
Promises, Promises
Doves over Jerusalem? An Interview with Menachem Klein
Jordanian Jerusalem: Postage Stamps and Identity Construction
Checkpoint Jerusalem
Memories of Al-Thori
Stoned at Bab al-Amud
O Jerusalem!

Spring 1999, Issue 4
Conflicts and Contradictions
West Jerusalem and the Politics of Refugees
Transforming the Face of the Holy City: Political Messages in the Built Topography of Jerusalem (part 2 of 2)
I am Jerusalem: Life in the Old City from the Mandate Period to the Present
The British School of Archaeology
Landscapes of Jerusalem
City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem

Winter 1999, Issue 3
Jerusalem Today: The Dialectics of Power and Resistance
Jerusalem 1948: The Phantom City
Transforming the Face of the Holy City: Political Messages in the Built Topography of Jerusalem (part 1 of 2)
Preempting Jerusalem
The Unmaking of Palestinian Neighborhoods in Jerusalem: 'French Hill' in Focus
Smithsonian Jerusalem Project: Palestinian Music
The Khalidiyah Library
History of Jerusalem under the Moslems from A.D. 650 to 1500, by Guy Le Strange.

Fall 1998, Issue 2
New Focus on Jerusalem
From Dheisheh to Jerusalem
Young Women in the City: Mandate Memories
Armenians of Jerusalem
Yoom Ilak, Yoom Aleik. Palestinian Refugees from Jerusalem, 1948: Heritage, Eviction & Hope (Video, 1998) Jerusalem: An Interactive Pilgrimage to the Holy City (CD Rom, 1995)
Al-Quds Al-Mamelukiyya: A History of Mamluk Jerusalem based on the Haram Documents, by Huda Lutfi
Israel's Social Policy in Arab Jerusalem

Spring 1998, Issue 1
1997: The Year That Was
Returning to the Source: The Politics of Housing in East Jerusalem
Ehud Olmert: Jerusalem and the Facts
Interview: Ehud Olmert's Hebronization of Jerusalem?
The Beautification of al-Quds
Wadi al-Joz: In Focus
Bayt al-Maqdas: The Fahmi al-Ansari Library