Guest Editors: Nadi Abusaada and Faris Shomali. In a 1965 essay for Hiwar, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra described the experience of seeing Jerusalem as a temporally thick encounter in which “history—a history of 4000 years—coalesces into a single moment, the moment in which one sees it.” Jabra’s reflection gestures toward the way in which the ostensibly simple…