Occupying Urban Memory: The Construction of Jerusalem in the Tower of David Museum’
This paper will discuss the memory-political narrative of the Tower of David Museum, located in the Old City of Jerusalem/al Quds. As part of a current research project on the role of urban imageries and spaces in constructions of Middle Eastern nationalisms, it will explore how the museum is part and parcel of the interwoven historiographic, cultural, and political quest to normalise and obscure
