Rachel Beckles Willson

About The Author

Rachel Beckles Willson is an award-winning writer and Professor of Intercultural Performing Arts at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam, and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is an internationally sought-after scholar, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. Her articles on the oud led her to win the Frances Densmore Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society in 2021.

Books by Rachel Beckles Willson

The Storyteller of Jerusalem

The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948

By Wasif Jawhariyyeh
Edited by Issam Nassar / Introduction by Rachel Beckles Willson / Translated by Nada Elzeer
The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem’s history, but change lived and recalled from the da...
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