Mission

This multi-faceted project is devoted to educational, cultural, and agricultural activities. It is an experimental learning hub for the Bethlehem community and beyond a place to ask questions, exchange ideas, to dream and to grapple with our contemporary situation.Knowledge production and research are the key pillars behind Dar Jacir. Workshops, seminars and master classes are conducted to facilitate the circulation of creative and intellectual endeavors across a range of disciplines and media in particular art and cinema. Our residency program offers an opportunity for visiting international and local artists and scholars to live and work in Dar Jacir. Our mission includes reactivating the links between Bethlehem and her community in Latin America with a special focus on exchange with the half million Bethlehemites living in Santiago, Chile. In addition, Dar Jacir houses a research center devoted to our Ottoman archives a vast collection of rare visual and textual material from the la