Issam Nassar

About The Author

Issam Nassar is a professor of history at Illinois State University and co-editor of Jerusalem Quarterly. He is the author of several books, including Laqatat Mughayira: al-Tasweer al-fotografi al-mubakir fi falastin (Different Snapshots: Early photography of Palestine).

Books by Issam Nassar

The Storyteller of Jerusalem

The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948

Edited by Issam Nassar / Introduction by Rachel Beckles Willson / Translated by Nada Elzeer
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 da...
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