Question

What best describes the work of the fellaheen?


Question 2 options:


using hand tools and animals to work the fields outside a village



driving tractors and combine harvesters to work vast plantations



managing apartment buildings and other rental properties in cities



using computers to buy and sell stocks and bonds

Answer 1

using hand tools and animals to work the fields outside a village

Answer 2

Correct answer:

using hand tools and animals to work the fields outside a village

Historical note:

In a publication by the Committee for a Democratic Palestine, writing about The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Ghassan Kanafani commented on the significance of the agricultural way of life to the Arab fellaheen in Palestine. He noted how extensive Jewish immigration into the region and British Mandate governance were disrupting the traditional existence of the fellaheen:

• "Agricultural life in the underdeveloped world, and the Arab world in particular, is not merely a mode of production, bur equally a way of social life.  Thus, in addition to the loss of land, Arab rural society was being destroyed by the process of colonization."