Tawfiq Canaan was a pioneering Palestinian physician, medical researcher, ethnographer, and Palestinian nationalist. Born in Beit Jala during the rule of the Ottoman Empire, he served as a medical officer in the Ottoman army during World War I.
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Looking towards the Mediterranean Sea, a view from within and of the campus of the American University of Beirut (formerly, the Syrian Protestant College) where Canaan studied medicine
The Old City of Jerusalem in the 1900s
Farmers in Palestine as photographed by Dwight Lathrop Elmendorf in 1912
Maqam of Nabi Samit (Samson) in Sar'a, destroyed in the 1950s
A jewellery store in Hebron where evil eye beads and Hebron glass bracelets are sold alongside the shopkeeper's main ware of silver or metal wire; photo by American Colony, Jerusalem, 1900-1920.
Page from a dictionary of North African jewellery depicting two stylized khamsas from Tunisia
Tatreez patterns including the hujub amulet pattern (the diamond shape with two inverted triangles on either side) on a dress for a woman from Beit Dajan. An illustrative example of the widespread use of amulet symbolism in the costumes of the people of PalestineDoctors born in the 1880s 6
About this person
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1882 to 1964 · aged 81
Written about in
9 languages
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