“A land without a people, for a people without a land” was how 19th-century Christian writers described Palestine, and much of the region’s modern history has been told through that lens.
This Al Jazeera World film by Ashraf Mashharawi tells the other side of the story: Palestine around 1920 as Palestinians lived it, a society with its own towns, trade, culture and politics on the eve of the British Mandate.
