Publications & Articles

Browse our expanding collection of publications and articles from ARCH members, scholars, and experts on Jerusalem’s cultural heritage.


“Memory and Heritage between Jerusalem and Geneva: An Interview with Maryvelma O’Neil onthe Virtual Illés Relief Initiative” by Ghayde Ghraowi, Review of Middle East Studies (2025), 1–11.

By: Maryvelma Smith O’Neil


“Social Biography and the Lost World of Cosmopolitan Jerusalem,” review of An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait Jerusalem before and After 1948 by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 101 Spring 2025, 121-127. 

By: Maryvelma Smith O’Neil


“LIVING JERUSALEM. The Virtual Illés Relief” by Maryvelma O’Neil and Andrew Yip, This Week in Palestine, October 2024, np.

By: Maryvelma Smith O’Neil and Andrew Yip


 “The Mughrabi Quarter Digital Archive and the Virtual Illés Relief Initiative,” Jerusalem Quarterly (81), Spring 2020, 52-77. 

By: Maryvelma Smith O’Neil


“The Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem (1865): Mapping Charles Wilson’s Benchmarks,” Ya Quds, No. 6, February 2020, 21-26. 

By: Maryvelma Smith O’Neil


“One Giant House: Palestinian Cultural Heritage and Identity in Al-Quds Al-Sharif,” Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, May 2018, No. 1, 87-113. 

By: Maryvelma Smith O’Neil