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- Here is Palestine in the 19th century, as it appears on very rare pictures. Here is Tiberias, Nablus, Haifa,

- and here is Nazareth and Jerusalem.

- Orientalism is on fashion, and the first photographers are also painters,

- travelling artists coming from Europe. They travel up and down Palestine

- and they have people posing. It is in 1880.

- 15 years later, the debut of the cinematograph. The operators of the Lumières Brothers are at Jerusalem Station.

- That is the first shot image of Palestine. The camera is now within the bulwarks, and here is what it comes across.

- A society that looks like the one in Cairo, Damascus or Beirut, in an Arabic town almost like any other.

- By the end of the 19th century, 500, 000 people live in Palestine, 30, 000 live in Jerusalem.

- A veiled woman, she is a Sunni Muslim, the religion of the majority.

- An Orthodox Jew. He is a Pope, an Armenian. Every Christian rite has their rite in the holy town. The holy places of the 3 religions gather on a few hundred meters.

- The Great Mosque is very close to Jesus Christ’s tomb. At the Wailing Wall, a Jew is saying a prayer. He is praying in Hebrew, but the Arab language is his language of everyday.

- The Jews make up to half of the population of Jerusalem.

- But they are less than 5% in the whole country. The Christians are 10%, the Muslims 85%.

- They are all subjects to the Sultan of Constantinople.

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