From the country’s album
Pictures and stories from the towns, villages, markets and ports of a Palestine living its whole life before it was uprooted.
43 entries
Palestine before the Nakba
Bethlehem and the Church of the Nativity under snow from the Jerusalem–Bethlehem road, 1941. Source: Palestinuna, Tourism and pilgrimage before the Na...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
In Jerusalem before the Nakba, the road to market passed a school, a bakery, a monastery and a mosque. From the Old City gates, people moved out to th...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
This article is part of the Palestine before the Nakba series.Before the Nakba, Ramallah and al-Bireh were neighbouring towns in the central Palestini...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
In Jericho before the Nakba, water drove the whole story: to the orchard, the home and the road that carried crops to market. Beneath dry mountains la...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
This article is part of the Palestine before the Nakba series.Before Gaza became a byword for camps, siege and genocide, it was a Palestinian city wit...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Tulkarm before the Nakba was a town that faced the plain as much as it leaned on the hills. Fields and citrus groves (bayyarat) surrounded it; in its...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Jenin before the Nakba was no town on the margins of Palestine. It opened northward onto the Marj Ibn Amer plain, linked the Nablus hills with Haifa,...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
In Nablus before the Nakba, olive oil travelled from the village to the soap factory and left it as soap stamped with its maker’s mark, bound for the...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
In Hebron before the Nakba, the grape season ran from the vineyard to the home and the market: grapes were eaten fresh, dried into raisins, and boiled...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
In the summer of 1930, a man from the village of Beit Hanina near Jerusalem opened a small bank with a capital of 15,000 Palestine pounds. His name wa...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Early Palestinian Photographers Before the Nakba: Khalil Raad, Karimeh Abbud, and the Pioneers Behind the CameraWhen the camera arrived in Palestine i...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
The Press in Palestine Before the Nakba: From Al-Karmil and Filastin to Al-DifaBefore 1948, Palestine had a vibrant Arabic-language press: daily newsp...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Pioneers of Palestinian Fiction: Khalil Baydas and Najati SidqiDecades before the Nakba, Palestine was writing, printing, and reading. In Nazareth, Ha...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Pioneering Women in Palestinian Literature and Journalism Before the Nakba: From Al-Karmil Newspaper to Jerusalem RadioBefore 1948, Palestinian women...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Folk Poetry of the 1936 Revolt: Nuh Ibrahim and the Songs of the VillagesIn Palestine's Great Revolt of 1936–1939, Palestinians did not fight with rif...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestinian Writers and Poets Before the Nakba: Ibrahim Tuqan, Khalil al-Sakakini and Abd al-Rahim MahmoudBefore the Nakba of 1948, Palestine had a vi...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Tourism, Hotels and Pilgrims in Palestine Before the Nakba: Jerusalem, Bethlehem and NazarethBefore the Nakba of 1948, Palestine was one of the busies...
Palestine before the Nakba
Palestine before the Nakba
Before the Nakba, the café was the heart of the Palestinian city: there newspapers were read and politics debated, the hakawati told the epics of Anta...
Palestine before the Nakba