Palestine Through the Lens: A Visual Chronicle of a Vibrant Society (1898-1946)

This is a review of an exceptional photobook, Images of Palestine (1898-1946). The book is a collection of photographs that spans nearly five decades, captured in the period leading up to the Palestine Nakba. Together, these black-and-white images chronicle a vibrant and diverse Palestinian society, highlighting its connection to the land, its achievements in commerce, architecture, and civil society, and its development into a modern socio-political entity chafing to break free from colonial domination.

The photographs cover the final years of the Ottoman Empire, World War I, the establishment of the British........

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