Jerusalem: Arab Social Life, Traditions, and Everyday Pleasures in the 20th Century - Ghosheh, Subhi S.
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A cultural study that seeks to preserve Jerusalems Arab traditions: festivals, folk medicine, cuisine, and even the everyday simple pleasures. Jerusalem is a city of unique grief, a city that has been the target of conquerors more than twenty times. Yet the city has managed to maintain its Arabic culture and traditionsIslamic, Christian, and Jewishand has emerged victorious time and time again. But beginning with its partial occupation in 1948, its full occupation in 1967, and continuing through today, the Israeli claim on Jerusalem and the governments efforts to change its identity,…mehr

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A cultural study that seeks to preserve Jerusalems Arab traditions: festivals, folk medicine, cuisine, and even the everyday simple pleasures. Jerusalem is a city of unique grief, a city that has been the target of conquerors more than twenty times. Yet the city has managed to maintain its Arabic culture and traditionsIslamic, Christian, and Jewishand has emerged victorious time and time again. But beginning with its partial occupation in 1948, its full occupation in 1967, and continuing through today, the Israeli claim on Jerusalem and the governments efforts to change its identity, threatens, finally, to obliterate the traditional Arab culture of the city.
Autorenporträt
Subhi S. Ghosheh is a renowned expert on the history of Jerusalem and a prolific writer on Palestinian culture. He is the chair of the Jerusalem Library in Amman, Jordan and is a founding member of the Jerusalem Deportees Committee. He is also a member of the Palestinian National Council.