Sounds and smells of Jerusalem, photography and Wasif Jawhariyyeh, hashish and music with Issam Nassar

Jerusalem Unplugged

English - March 10, 2021 06:05 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Issam Nassar in this episodes remembers his childhood in Jerusalem through smells and sounds. Issam then shares his passion for photography and he then talks about Wasif Jawhariyyeh, a Christian Palestinian who left us with an amazing diary and memoirs of the Mandate era, showing a Jerusalem full of life, often neglected and forgotten.

Issam Nassar is a Palestinian historian of photography and the Middle East. He is professor of History at Illinois State University and a research fellow at the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. Nassar is also associate editor of the Journal Jerusalem Quarterly and has authored many books, among them European Portrayals of Jerusalem. Nassar is currently Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

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