The Arabness of Palestine and Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

About this book

Dr. Sonia Ahmed Malki offers younger readers a historical account of Palestine and Al-Quds rooted in the long continuity of place, people, and memory. Canaanite and Jebusite origins, successive civilizations, religious landmarks, and the intertwined presence of mosques, churches, olive trees, and neighbourhoods are presented as evidence against narratives of erasure. The book also connects history to displacement and the experience of refugees, showing how identity survives in language, family testimony, and attachment to land. Accessible without flattening complexity, it invites readers to understand Jerusalem as both a sacred city and a living human inheritance shaped across millennia.