Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 25.01.2009:
By Mariam Shahin with photographs by George Azar
For the first 40 years of the 20th century, Haifa was the most sophisticated city in Palestine. As the de facto capital of the north, it was home to the country’s main port, the most important rail system, and a 1,200-mile-long oil pipeline that connected Palestine to Iraq.
Its population was cosmopolitan and its urban landscape w(...)
Contributed by Toine Van Teeffelen on 24.11.2007:
Johnny Mansour
From:
Jerusalem Quarterly
Fall 2006
Issue 28
Connecting the holy sites in the Hijaz to Istanbul via railway was a project that came to light during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdel Hamid II. He sought to demonstrate his strength and power practically by applying the concept of a greater Islamic community to a series of projects within the(...)
Contributed by Turathuna Bethlehem University on 18.10.2006:
Bahai Temple in Haifa is the spiritual center for the world's 5 million adherents of the Bahai faith.
Contributed by Turathuna Bethlehem University on 18.10.2006:
A view of the Bahai Temple in Haifa. It serves as the spiritual center for the world's 5 million adherents of the Bahai faith. Said Ali Muhammad, one of the two founders of the Bahai religion, is buried inside the modest interior of the shrine. The Bahai Gardens, planted in 1909, are the best kept in (...)
Contributed by Turathuna Bethlehem University on 18.10.2006:
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The beautiful golden-domed shrine is located on Mount Carmel, and serves as the spiritual center for the world's 5 million adherents of the Bahai faith. Said Ali Muhammad, one of the two founders of the Bahai religion, is buried inside the modest interior of the shrine. The Bahai Gardens, planted in 1909, are the best kept in the entire country.
Contributed by This Week In Palestine on 06.09.2006:
SARAYA, THE OGRE’S DAUGHTER
By Emile Habiby
By Emile Habiby
Translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux
Ibis Editions, Jerusalem, 2006, 210 pages, $16.95
One moonless night in the summer of 1983, on a boulder off the shore of what once was al-Zeeb, a Palestinian village north of Acre, the narrator of Emile Habiby’s haunting last novel catches a glimpse of a (...)
Contributed by Terra Sancta School For Girls on 11.03.2006:
Manar Atick
I made an interview with Nasri Ghattas, my uncle’s cousin. Nasri was born in 1936. He started talking about how life was in the past before 1948.
“At that time all the people were in a similar situation. They were sometimes poor, not so much financially but rather because their life was simple. There was no electricity and people took water from the well. Despite all(...)