Palestinians

===Art===
[[Image:Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery.JPG|thumb|right|The [[Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery]]]]
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Similar to the structure of Palestinian society, the Palestinian field of arts extends over four main geographic centers: the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]], [[Israel]], the [[Palestinian diaspora]] in the [[Arab world]], and the Palestinian diaspora in [[Europe]], the [[United States]] and elsewhere.<ref name=Zvi>{{cite web|title=Hagar: Contemporary Palestinian Art|author=Tal Ben Zvi|publisher=Hagar Association|year=2006|access-date=5 June 2007|url=http://www.hagar-gallery.com/Catalogues/docs/PArt_eng_final.pdf|archive-date=16 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116185723/http://www.hagar-gallery.com/Catalogues/docs/PArt_eng_final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

;Cinema
{{main|Cinema of Palestine}}
Palestinian cinematography, relatively young compared to [[Arab cinema]] overall, receives much European and Israeli support.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1752076,00.html|title=Xan Brooks on Palestinian directors &#124; Film &#124; The Guardian|publisher=Film.guardian.co.uk|location=London|date=12 April 2006|access-date=22 April 2009|archive-date=24 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724025446/http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1752076,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Palestinian films are not exclusively produced in [[Arabic]]; some are made in English, French or Hebrew.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palestinefilm.org/default.asp|title=Palestine Film|access-date=26 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612083355/http://www.palestinefilm.org/default.asp|archive-date=12 June 2008}}</ref> More than 800 films have been produced about Palestinians, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and other related topics.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} Examples include ''[[Divine Intervention (2002 film)|Divine Intervention]]'' and ''[[Paradise Now]]''.

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File:Jaffa Alhambra Cinema03562ucroped.jpg|The Alhamra Cinema, [[Jaffa]], 1937, [[List of Irgun attacks|bombed December 1947]]
File:Halhul, 1940.jpg|Villagers in [[Halhul]] at an open-air cinema screening c. 1940
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;Handicrafts
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A wide variety of handicrafts, many of which have been produced in the area of Palestine for hundreds of years, continue to be produced today. Palestinian handicrafts include [[Palestinian costumes#Palestinian embroidery|embroidery]] and weaving, [[Palestinian pottery|pottery]]-making, [[Nabulsi soap|soap]]-making, [[Hebron glass|glass-making]], and [[olive]]-wood and [[Mother-of-Pearl carving in Bethlehem|Mother of Pearl carvings]], among others.<ref name=Jacobs>Jacobs et al., 1998, p. 72.</ref><ref name=Karmi>Karmi, 2005, p. 18.</ref>

;Costumes
{{main|Palestinian costumes}}
Foreign travelers to Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries often commented on the rich variety of costumes among the area's inhabitants, and particularly among the [[fellaheen]] or village women. Until the 1940s, a woman's economic status, whether married or single, and the town or area they were from could be deciphered by most Palestinian women by the type of cloth, colors, cut, and [[embroidery]] motifs, or lack thereof, used for the robe-like dress or "thoub" in Arabic.<ref name=Aramco>{{cite magazine|title=Woven Legacy, Woven Language|author=Jane Waldron Grutz|magazine=Saudi Aramco World|date=January–February 1991|access-date=4 June 2007|url=http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199101/woven.legacy.woven.language.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219004053/http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199101/woven.legacy.woven.language.htm|archive-date=19 February 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

New styles began to appear in the 1960s. For example, the "six-branched dress" named after the six wide bands of embroidery running down from the waist.<ref>Weir, Shelagh (1989) ''Palestinian Costume''. British Museum. {{ISBN|0-7141-1597-5}}. p. 112.</ref> These styles came from the refugee camps, particularly after 1967. Individual village styles were lost and replaced by an identifiable "Palestinian" style.<ref>Skinner, Margarita (2007) ''PALESTINIAN EMBROIDERY MOTIVES. A Treasury of Stitches 1850–1950''. Melisende. {{ISBN|978-1-901764-47-5}}. p. 21.</ref> The shawal, a style popular in the [[West Bank]] and [[Jordan]] before the [[First Intifada]], probably evolved from one of the many [[NGO|welfare]] embroidery projects in the [[Palestine refugee camps|refugee camps]]. It was a shorter and narrower fashion, with a western cut.<ref>Weir, Shelagh (1989) ''Palestinian Costume''. British Museum. {{ISBN|0-7141-1597-5}}. pp. 88, 113.</ref>
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File:Betlehem woman b.jpg|A woman from Bethlehem, c. 1940s.
File:Ramallah woman2.jpg|Young woman of Ramallah wearing [[dowry]] headdress, c. 1898–1914
File:Ramlah costumewo.jpg|Ramallah woman, c. 1920, [[Library of Congress]]
File:Arabic-traditional-Dress.jpg|A Traditional Women's Dress in Ramallah, c. 1920.
File:Bethlehengirlsintraditionaldresspre1918.jpg|Girls in Bethlehem costume pre-1885.
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