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As part of a series of reports from Jerusalem about Jerusalemite figures who have made their mark on the city in various political, economic, academic, cultural, scientific and other fields, Al Jazeera Net monitors the experience of history professor Dr. Nazmi Al-Jubeh, who grew up in the Old City of the city and works as a lecturer at Birzeit University in Ramallah. God 34 years ago.
Jerusalemite academic Dr. Nazmi al-Jubeh was born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1955, where he grew up to a father who worked as a herbalist.
Al-Jubeh did not complete his studies in Jerusalem, as he moved to the city of Ramallah to avoid studying the Israeli curriculum imposed on Jerusalem schools.
At Birzeit University, Al-Jubeh obtained a bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern studies and archaeology, then worked as director of the Museum of Islamic Antiquities in Al-Aqsa Mosque, before heading to Germany to join the University of Tübingen to obtain master’s and doctorate degrees in archaeology.
To date, Al-Jubeh has been teaching at Birzeit University for 34 years, and in parallel with the academic side, he has supervised the restoration of historical buildings throughout Palestine.
Al-Juba’s academic work focuses mainly on the city of Jerusalem, Hebron, and Bethlehem, and he has published about 18 books so far, the most recent of which are “The Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan Quarter... History and Destruction” and “Jerusalem in Israeli Historical Novels,” and he currently has in print the book “Jerusalem in the Mamluk Era.” ..History, architecture and heritage.”
Al-Jubeh says that his upbringing in Jerusalem influenced his academic interest. His first school was the “Omariya School” in the northern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and he spent his childhood among the mosque’s walls, trees, and terraces.
The demolition of the Moroccan Quarter in June 1967, before Al-Juaba’s eyes, left a mark and pain from which it has not yet recovered.
He added that this experience turned into a challenge for him in his academic work in terms of proving the Palestinian Arab presence throughout the ages, especially in Jerusalem, and disseminating and disseminating knowledge about the history and heritage of this unique city.
Al-Jubeh concludes by saying about his city: “A jewel that contains cultural monuments from various eras that we rarely find in any other city in the world. It is less than a square kilometre. It summarized an essential part of human history, and protecting it is not a protection of the past, but rather a protection of our existence in the future.”
Source: Al Jazeera