{"id":6529,"date":"2022-02-02T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:21:16","slug":"palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-story-an-al-jazeera-world-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2022\/02\/palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-story-an-al-jazeera-world-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story&#8221;, an Al-Jazeera documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"540\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/al-jazeera-palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-story.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6531\" style=\"width:244px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/al-jazeera-palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-story.jpg 361w, https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/al-jazeera-palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-story-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A thriving trading nation or a land without a people? Historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Synopsis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA land without a people, and a people without a land\u201d is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes. But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The evidence suggests that its cities had a developing trade and commercial sector, growing infrastructure, and embryonic culture that would enable it to meet the challenges of the decades ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the political ramifications of the Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference and British Mandate set in motion a series of events that profoundly affected this vibrant, fledgeling society and led to the events of 1948 and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This film is the other side of the Palestinian story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch the whole Al-Jazeera World documentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUCeQt8zg5o?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More info at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/al-jazeera-world\/2022\/2\/2\/palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Al-Jazeera World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA land without a people, and a people without a land\u201d is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes. But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[926],"tags":[991,536,1099],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries","tag-al-jazeera","tag-balfour-declaration","tag-palestine-1920-the-other-side-of-the-palestinian-story-documentary"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}