Curator Baha Jubeh, guest-curator Abdel-Rahman Shabane, and assistant-curator Sandy Rishmawi

Monday, 7 December | 18:00
Language: Arabic (English subtitles)
Place: the Palestinian Museum social media platforms

The virtual tour of the fourth section of Printed in Jerusalem: Mustamloun begins with a set of digital fonts and an exploration of how they translate into Arabic. It also highlights the influence that calligrapher Mohammed Siyam had through the educational material and penmanship copybooks he created, which were used during the British Mandate period and Jordanian rule.

The tour also draws attention to Khalil Sakakini, his influence in education, and his prolific writings. It goes on to shed light on Jerusalem’s social life through wedding invitations, health sector publications and other material that was printed in the city.

In ‘Leave a Trace’, we see how in the 1960s and 70s, Israeli military censors suppressed any material of which they disapproved. In those days, newspapers often appeared with blank columns, marks of the censor’s redactions, which left readers with a space in which to imagine and wonder about the censored item.

The tour concludes with the culture corner, where the disappearance and emergence of some magazines and newspapers that were printed in Jerusalem is analysed, and the history of some of these publications is surveyed in an interview with writer and novelist Mahmoud Shukair.