In light of this week’s violence in Jerusalem, I’m remembering my former home in the old city at Mar Michael convent.
In 1994 I lived in one of those limestone houses at the back of the Greek Orthodox community off the Via Dolorosa (with an image of the Virgin Mary over my single bed), nestled into the edge of the old city wall.
I wrote for the first post Oslo-accord joint Israeli-Palestinian monthly magazine The New Middle East with one Palestinian editor, Maher Abu Khatr (of Fajr) and one Israeli, Erwin Frenkel (formerly of the Jerusalem Post).
