A Land With A People
Declared “a land without a people for a people without a land,” Palestine always had people. People with a rich history and culture, who lived in peace and harmony for centuries, always devoted to their land, planting seeds of love in its olive trees and orange groves.
Sources and Credits
-Photographic and Archival Stills
--Library of Congress. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.
--Wikimedia Commons. Selected archival imagery.
-Moving Images
--British Pathé. Newsreel footage: In Palestine Today (1938); Back to the Holy Land (1939); Military Activity (1939).
--Shaked, Zahi. Why was Jaffa’s clock built? The story of Clock Square during Christmas and Hanukkah [Video]. YouTube.
-Primary Source Reproductions
--British Library. The Balfour Declaration. Manuscript/Document collection.
--Dance-Holland, Nathaniel. Portrait of Captain James Cook (c. 1775–1776).
--La Palestine. (1925, March 25). Jaffa.
-Academic References
--Gara, Eleni. (2017). "Conceptualizing Inter-religious Relations in the Ottoman Empire: The Early Modern Centuries." Acta Poloniae Historica, (116), 5–34.
--Hatuka, Tali. (2008). "Negotiating Space: Analyzing Jaffa Protest. Form, Intention and Violence, October 27th 1933." Jerusalem Quarterly, (36), 35–48.
--Klein, Menachem. (2018). Joint Jewish and Muslim Holy Places: Religious Beliefs and Festivals in Jerusalem between the Late 19th Century and 1948. Routledge.
Writing, voice over, music and video editing by Henrique Cartaxo. Comissioned and conceptually directed by return()