Creating new perspectives since 2009
Items by Dr Julie M. Norman
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Go see El-Manshiyyeh. You’ll never look at Yafa the same way again
Like many visitors to Yafa/Jaffa, I have passed by the Hassen Bek Mosque on countless occasions. Surrounded now by busy roads, and with Tel Aviv’s apartment towers and hotels just blocks away, it has long stood out as a striking landmark of Ottoman-era history and architecture against an encroaching urban…