Our Country Palestine (book)
| Author | Mustafa Murad Al-Dabbagh |
|---|---|
| Original title | Biladuna Filastin |
| Language | Arabic |
| Publisher | Dar Al-Tali'ah |
The book Our Country Palestine (Arabic: بلادنا فلسطين, romanized: Bilādunā Filasṭīn) is a book dealing with the geography and social history of Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. It was written by the Palestinian historian Mustafa Murad Al-Dabbagh to document Palestinian villages and towns.[1][2][3][4]
Description
The book consists of several volumes—more than eleven in total—published in stages between the 1950s and the 1980s. It combines geographical, historical, and documentary approaches, providing detailed descriptions of the location of each district and village, their population, educational and economic facilities, as well as information on Palestine's terrain, climate, and administrative divisions throughout history.[5][6][7][8][9]
Significance
The book is distinguished by its accuracy in gathering information from official sources and statistical reports, making it a fundamental reference for researchers in Palestinian history and geography.
Today, Our Country Palestine is regarded as one of the most important references in Palestinian studies and is used in universities and research centers across the Arab world.
The first edition was published by Dar al-Tali'ah in Beirut in 1965. In 1973, the University Students Association in the Hebron Governorate, in collaboration with Dar al-Tali'ah, reprinted it.[10] Subsequent volumes of the work were published by the author between 1976 and 1986.[11]
All 11 volumes were republished together in 2018 by the Institute for Palestine Studies, with an introduction by Walid Khalidi.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Masalha, Nur (1 November 2016). "The Concept of Palestine: The Conception Of Palestine from the Late Bronze Age to the Modern Period". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 15 (2): 143–202. doi:10.3366/hlps.2016.0140. ISSN 2054-1988.
- ^ a b Encyclopedia: Palestine, Our Homeland (Biladuna Filastin). Institute for Palestine Studies. Archived from the original on 7 May 2025.
- ^ Abu Shakra, Eyad (27 April 2018). "Opinion: Our region, our collective memory and Ghassan Al-Imam". Arab News. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
- ^ Cohen, Hillel; Watzman, Haim (2015). Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929. Brandeis University Press. ISBN 978-1-61168-810-8. JSTOR j.ctv102bh1n.
- ^ Masalha, Nur (15 August 2018). Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78699-274-1.
- ^ Doumani, Beshara B. (1 January 1992). "Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History". Journal of Palestine Studies. 21 (2): 5–28. doi:10.2307/2537216. JSTOR 2537216.
- ^ Khalidi, Walid; Manṣūr, Kamīl; Fawaz, Leila Tarazi (2009). Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid Khalidi. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-977-416-247-3.
- ^ "Encyclopedia: Palestine, Our Homeland (Biladuna Filastin)". Institute for Palestine Studies.
- ^ Davis, Rochelle (2011). Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Stanford University Press. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-0-8047-7313-3.
- ^ Palestine, Our Homeland: Volume One: Geography and History of Palestine: General View. Institute for Palestine Studies. Archived from the original on 11 October 2024.
- ^ Abbasi, Mustafa (1 May 2019). "Before Their Exile: The Transformation of Palestininan Villages in Western Galilee, 1918–1948". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 18 (1): 75–99. doi:10.3366/hlps.2019.0203. ISSN 2054-1988.