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Today, Meah Shearim remains an Old World enclave in the heart of Jerusalem. With its overwhelmingly Haredi population, the streets retain the flavor of an East European shtetl. Life revolves around strict adherence to Jewish law, prayer and the study of Jewish texts. (source; wikipedia)

moving from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, we crossed the ‘concrete chainsaw’ as the French-Israeli director Simone Bitton calls the West Bank Wall in her documentary film Mur. Experiencing this separation and division in space, time and of people through walls and checkpoints, it is impossible to remain uncritical. A last post on Bethlehem.

movingcities spend two days in Bethlehem, in the residency studio of Alessandro Petti and Sandi Helal. Both have been working in the past on Stateless Nation and are now curating together with Eyal Weizman a project entitled Decolonizing Architecture. More news on this project in the coming days. For now, a first series of pictures from behind the West Bank Wall.