My Jerusalem : essays, reminiscences, and poems /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jayyusi, Salma Khadra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Salma Khadra Jayyusi
  • The covenant of Caliph 'Umar with thep people of Jerusalem / Tr. M. Modassar Ali
  • Jerusalem / Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Jerusalem as the Key Issue / Bayan Nuweihad Al-Hut
  • I Lived in Jerusalem / Subhi Ghosheh
  • Jerusalem: occupation and challenges to urban identity / Yasser Ibrahim Rajjal
  • The urban transformation of Jerusalem after 1967 / Anthony Coon
  • I Lived in Jerusalem / Na'ila 'L-Wa'ri
  • I returned to Jerusalem / Liyana Badr
  • Jerusalem and I: A personal record / Hala Sakakini
  • The Jerusalem question in international law: the way to a solution / Eugene Cotran
  • My city denied to me / 'Atallah Kuttab
  • Holy places, unholy domination: the scramble for Jerusalem / Michael Prior
  • Jerusalem and the forgotten documents / Muhammad Husain Al-Farra
  • Jerusalem in Arab-Israeli negotiations / Adnan Al-Sayyid Hussein
  • Hamza Aweiwi, a shoemaker / Hayan Charara
  • Diaspora, step by step / Ibtisam Barakat
  • Jerusalem song / Lisa S. Majaj
  • A room / Nathalie Handal
  • Jerusalem sunflower / Saleh Abudayyeh
  • City of olive branches / Nizar Qabbani
  • The thrice-loved land / Isma'il Ibrahim Nawwab
  • This city / Aida Hasan Damuni
  • Jerusalem as the city of God's kingdom: common tropes in the Bible and the ancient Near East / Thomas L. Thompson
  • The Zionist claims to al-Haram al-Sharif and al-Aqsa Mosque: biblical perspective / Michel Eddeh
  • A multiple identity / Laila Al-Atrash
  • The Hezekiah narrative as a foundation myth for Jerusalem's rise to sovereignty / Ingrid Hjelm
  • From shepherd to painter / Mahmoud Shahin
  • Space and holiness in medieval Jerusalem / Oleg Grabar
  • A Jerusalemite painter remembers / Kamal Boullata
  • Jerusalem in 1923: The impressions of a young European / Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
  • Islamic architectural character of Jerusalem: with special description of the al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock / Ra'ef Najm
  • The Mosque of Omar / Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Jerusalem reminiscences / Mureed Barghouthy
  • The Muslim Quarter / Sarah Maguire.