Palestine, before its occupation

"Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad (28 June 1889 – 12 March 1964), Egyptian writer, and member of the Arab Academy, giving a lecture, organized by the YMCA, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, 1940. Al-Aqqad wrote more than 100 books about philosophy, religion, and poetry. He founded a poetry school with Ibrahim al-Mazini and Abdel Rahman Shukry called Al-Diwan."