[This translation is an excerpt of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s twenty-page essay, “Jerusalem: Time Embodied.” It was published by the Modern Library (al-Maktaba al-‘Asriya) press in Beirut in 1967 in a collection of his literary and social criticism entitled, The Eighth Journey.
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Thalia Beaty is a print and radio journalist based in New York, and previously, an editor at Muftah. She has studied and worked in Egypt and Tunisia, and is a lover of Arabic literature and popular media. In 2009, she was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the American University in Cairo. You can follow her @tkbeaty