joene 🏴History.Culture.projects: *The Palestinian Fellahin: Making the desert bloom for 5,000 years*
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xffkLJY53MY
"For thousands of years the Fellaheen, the Palestinian peasant farmer, was the backbone of Palestine's agrarian economy. Millennia of experience had made the Fellah the master of all of Palestine's challenging micro climates. They carved the stone hillsides into productive terraces, stored winter rains in underground cisterns, and cultivated olive trees so ancient they had names. This is their story.
Sources:
A Survey of Palestine (British Mandate Government, 1946):
A comprehensive statistical and economic survey prepared for the Anglo-American Committee. Contains detailed agricultural production data by crop and population group.
Full PDF:
https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/a_su/A%20SURVEY%20OF%20PALESTINE%20DEC%201945-JAN%201946%20VOL%20I.pdf
Alexander Scholch, “The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850–1882,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1985.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/abs/demographic-development-of-palestine-18501882/38C7F3AD112AD44E9AEDF09A1ACECF9B
Walid Khalidi – All That Remains (1992): https://www.amazon.com/All-That-Remains-Palestinian-Depopulated/dp/0887283063
Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
https://www.palquest.org/en/highlight/36858/olive-oil-production-late-ottoman-rule
Acquired Immunity to Malaria
https://web.archive.org/web/20250311101325/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2620631/ "
