MENA (Middle East and North Africa) is Here

Sanchez-Summerer, K. (Organiser)

Research Centre for Historical Studies (CHS)

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Description

Food festival, workshop 13/03/2023: ‘Food across confessions?’
Conference evening, 16/05/2023, Paper: ‘'Palestine illustrated' revisited. The Holy/ Promised Land at the beginning of the 1920s and historical photography'’

Period	May-2023
Event type	Festival
Location	Groningen, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National

Keywords

Historical photography
Palestine
Holy Land/ Promised Land

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As part of MENA is here, Synagogue Groningen is organizing a lecture given by Prof. Dr. Karène Sanchez-Summerer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Groningen. Sanchez will talk about the Dutch photographer Franck Scholten (1881-1942), who captured the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1920s. Using Scholten’s work, Sanchez shows how photography changed the political, cultural and economic landscape of Mandate Palestine. Based on photos taken by the Dutch Franck Scholten (1881-1942) in his trip to Palestine (1921-1923), this lecture will show how photography reflects the shifting political, cultural and economic landscape of the early British Mandate period, and experiences of modernity in Palestine. Apart from being prolific, Frank Scholten’s work is incredibly diverse, covering subjects as broad as events, both religious and secular, architectural explorations from villages that no longer exist to major cities like Jaffa, Haifa, Jerusalem and the fledgling township Tel Aviv, which was but a decade old when he arrived. Perhaps one of the hallmarks of Scholten’s collected works is the thoroughness with which he imaged Palestine. His images of people cut across religious and confessional lines, ethnic backgrounds, class and urban-rural divides. He imaged people at work as well as in their leisure time, but most of all, he imaged people in the context of their daily life, rather than divorced from the landscape.