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The Storyteller of Jerusalem - The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 (Paperback): Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar The Storyteller of Jerusalem - The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948 (Paperback)
Salim Tamari, Issam Nassar
R651 R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Save R96 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem's history, but change lived and recalled from the daily vantage point of the street storyteller. Oud player, music lover and ethnographer, poet, collector, partygoer, satirist, civil servant, local historian, devoted son, husband, father, and person of faith, Wasif viewed the life of his city through multiple roles and lenses. The result is a vibrant, unpredictable, sprawling collection of anecdotes, observations, and yearnings as varied as the city itself. Reflecting the times of Ottoman rule, the British mandate, and the run-up to the founding of the state of Israel, The Storyteller of Jerusalem offers intimate glimpses of people and events, and of forces promoting confined, divisive ethnic and sectarian identities. Yet, through his passionate immersion in the life of the city, Wasif reveals the communitarian ethos that runs so powerfully through Jerusalem's past. And that offers perhaps the best hope for its future.

Camera Palaestina - Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (Paperback): Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, Salim Tamari Camera Palaestina - Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (Paperback)
Issam Nassar, Stephen Sheehi, Salim Tamari
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904-1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh's nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period, the authors explore not just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community. Tracking the interplay between photographic images, the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.

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