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The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City. Tomorrow’s Jerusalem. Rashid Khalidi and Salim Tamari

This book contain a selection of outstanding articles under the title we invite you to this webinar on Thursday, 12th Dec, 7pm Jerusalem time, 12pm EST. Register here:

There have been countless works written on Jerusalem, often framing it as a holy city central to the three Abrahamic faiths. However, modern accounts of Jerusalem have come to privilege Zionist narratives and claims to the city. Such ideologically motivated representations deny us an understanding of Jerusalem's rich intercommunal traditions and the true scope of its modern development since the 19th century.

The contested modern history and the rapid changes Jerusalem has witnessed over the past two centuries provide the essential background to these articles, which illuminate lesser-known aspects of the multi-dimensional story of Jerusalem. Preserving this story as part of the history of the Holy City is also central to the mission of the co-publisher of this series, the Khalidi Library, for over a century.