On the Meaning of Place: A Walk Through the Old City

Matthew Teller’s Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (2022) gives voice to the layered tapestry of communities, each with its own story, that make up the city. His talk for the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute interweaves stories from Palestinian Arab and Jewish Israeli communities, as well as African, Indian, Greek, Armenian, and Syriac societies, and Gypsy families and Sufi mystics, too.