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Title

My Jerusalem : essays, reminiscences, and poems / edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Zafar Isbaq Ansari.

Publication

Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra.

Description

xiv, 340 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"A passionate and eclectic collection of essays, poems, and scholarship that brings to life Jerusalem, in its embattled, contemporary guise as well as in its ancient history. The book begins in the immediacy of today's Jerusalem - with its dispossession and laws, its bloody conflicts and massive skyscrapers - and moves backward in time to Classical Jerusalem, working to disentangle the knots of the three great monotheistic religions, and finally comes to rest in a section that is a testament to the physical facts of Jerusalem: its monuments and alleys, its smells, its music, its people."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Jerusalem > Ethnic relations
• Jerusalem > History
• Jerusalem > Description and travel
• Jerusalem > In the Bible
• Palestinian Arabs > Jerusalem > History
• Arab-Israeli conflict

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-340).

Contents

Foreword / Zafar Ishaq Ansari -- Introduction / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Jerusalem / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The Arabs, Islam, and Jerusalem / Andre Raymond -- Jerusalem as the key issue / Bayan Nuwaihed al-Hut -- Jerusalem : occupation and challenges to urban identity / Yasser Ibrahim Rajjal -- The urban transformation of Jerusalem after 1967 / Anthony Coon -- The Jerusalem question in international law : the way to a solution / Eugene Cotran -- 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 -- 'Umar's assurance of safety to the people of Aelia (Islamic Jerusalem) : a critical analytical study of historical sources / Abd al-Fattah el-Awaisi -- Jerusalem as the city of God's Kingdom : common tropes in the Bible and the ancient Near East / Thomas L. Thompson -- Reporting the Jehoash inscription : an exclusivist claim to Israel / Keith W. Whitelam -- The Zionist claims to al-Haram al-Sharif and al-Aqsa Mosque : a biblical perspective / Michel Eddeh -- Space and holiness in medieval Jerusalem / Oleg Grabar -- The Hezekiah narrative as a foundation myth for Jerusalem's rise to sovereignty / Ingrid Hjelm -- From Jebu / Etal Adnan -- I lived in Jerusalem / Na'ila 'l-Wa'ri -- I lived in Jerusalem / Subhi Ghosheh -- A lily called Jerusalem / Nazik al-Mala'ika -- A room / Nathalie Handal -- A Jerusalemite painter remembers / Kamal Boullata -- Jerusalem song / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- A multiple identity / Laila al-Atrash -- Jerusalem in 1923 : the impressions of a young European / Muhammad Asad -- Diaspora, step by step / Ibtisam Barakat -- Jerusalem sunflower / Saleh Abudayyeh -- City of olive branches / Nizar Qabbani -- Islamic architectural character of Jerusalem : with special description of the al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock / Ra'ef Najm -- Jerusalem and I : a personal record / Hala Sakakini -- My city denied to me / 'Atallah Kuttab -- The mosque of Omar / Nikos Kazantzakis -- The thrice-loved land / Isma'il Ibrahim Nawwab -- I returned to Jerusalem / Liyana Badr -- This city / Aida Hasan Damuni -- From Shepherd to painter / Mahmoud Shahin -- Hamza Aweiwi, a shoemaker / Hayan Charara -- Jerusalem reminiscences / Mureed Barghouthy -- We are Icarus / Patricia B. Cosentino -- The debris of memory / Ruanne Abou-Rahme -- Jerusalem / Izzat Khattab -- "Checkpotht" / Azmi Bishara -- Jerusalem is the door to my love / Lena Jayyusi -- Poem to Jerusalem and death in Jerusalem / Jinan May Coulter -- The Mukhtar and I : my very last summer in Jerusalem / Michel Moushabeck -- The Muslim quarter / Sarah Maguire.

ISBN

• 1566565499 (pbk.)
• 9781566565493 (pbk.)

LCCN

2005013703

OCLC

• ocm60373339
• SCSB-5196605

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries