Camera Palæstina : photography and displaced histories of Palestine This volume is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904 1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar Sheehi and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period the authors explore not just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community. Tracking the interplay between photographic images the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material historical and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.