Salman Masalha
Islam Has Never Denied the Jewish Connection to Jerusalem. On the contrary, anywhere you look in early Islamic literature, if it discusses the city at all you’ll find its Jewish connecti...
Showing posts with label Jerusalem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerusalem. Show all posts
Zealots and Fools Should Not Oversee Jerusalem Holy Sites
Salman Masalha ||| Zealots Should Not Oversee Holy Sites |
Only objective secularists can safeguard the holiness attributed to these sites, to preserve the holiness of humankind, and prevent bloodshe...
They see not, nor know
'Neutralizing' East Jerusalem:
A day before the start of Operation Pillar of Defense, Nir Hasson revealed the Nature and Parks Authority's plan to establish a national park on the eastern slopes of Mount Scopus. According to Peace Now, the park "is meant to create a corridor...
The reluctant philanthropists
Horsemen of the handout:Today the halukkah comes from the working public. This public - both Jews and Arabs - pays taxes and bears the burden, and in recent years it has taken the place of the 'new philanthropist.'Salman Masalha || The reluctant philanthropistsIn the middle...
Longings for Jerusalem
In the wake of “In the Land of Israel: Essays,” by Amos Oz, 1983.
Salman Masalha ||
Longings for Jerusalem
It’s been many a day since first I came to Jerusalem in the 1970s. After all these years I’ve learned that their number can be considered as the blink of an eye in comparison to all the years of the city that falls and rises, falls and rises...
Hearts and Diamonds
Salman Masalha
Hearts and Diamonds
At this summer’s end, ill-assorted sounds mingle in the air. During the days of this month of Ramadan that has just knocked at the city gates, unsynchronized voices of muezzins cut through the sky. Each voice, in its own way, rises from...
All Birds Lead to Rome
Salman Masalha
ALL BIRDS LEAD TO ROME
At the end of the 1950s, I was a young boy, and quite naïve and innocent. It never crossed my little Arab mind to wonder about the hidden intentions of the flocks of birds that would land, as the olive harvest approached, in the fields of olive trees of the village of Maghar that looks out over the Sea of...
The City of the Walking Flower
Salman Masalha The City of the Walking Flower
Here, on the watershed of the winds, between reality and imagination, between
the utopia of the celestial spheres and the doom of the underworld, stands
Jerusalem. The city is a pile of stones that separates sea from sea, tomorrow
from yesterday, the green from the desert, and, above all,...
