p 78, Yasid El Rifai, Dima Yaser, Adele Jarrar
In this narrative, we strive to examine and illustrate the role that was played by the Tegart forts in the Palestinian landscape, since their establishment in 1936 to their nowness, addressing changes that were altered to this legacy. These structures stood as loci, radiating power in the...
Stolen Land: Tracing Traumascapes in Four Leprosaria in the Jerusalem District
p 87, Suzannah Henty
In the writing of history of threatened heritage, collectively we can better understand the return to sovereign title and rightful citizenry of space. In Jerusalem and its surrounding suburbs are four leprosaria: Mamilla Asylum, Jesus Hilfe Asyl ( Talbiya ), Silwan and Surda (star) Mountain. These...
Solomon’s Pools: A Patient Framework Awaiting Its Potential
pg 98, Dima Srouji
Negligence has shadowed Solomon’s Pools through many phases of atlal. Their ever-changing occupiers and authorities painted different narratives of ruin for each generation. Looking back at this narrative, my own idea of atlal in regard to the pools and the surrounding area relates to the Israeli...
Balu‘ as Residual Space: Landform and Sociality in Palestine
Books, Not Soldiers
P.120, Mahmoud Muna
As shelves of books are now nicely filled with colourful books at Jerusalem’s Educational bookshop, thousands more are stored in dark rooms in the basement of the Israeli National Library; stolen property of Palestinian dynasties but categorized as “abandoned”. Books and the way we arrange them, is...