Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon

That was when most of the migration happened in the first decades of the 20th century.

Initially, mostly from the crumbling Ottoman Empire and then later the French mandate, Syria and Lebanon.

And so the first Jewish organization was started by a Sephardic person.

It represented everybody, but little by little, different groups broke away.

I mean, this is really, um, uh, uh, an interesting way of, uh, revisiting our history or looking into how women are represented, uh, or not represented in history.

So I think these photographs, in a way, invite us to rethink, you know, why, why don't we have women in, in the writing of, uh, the history of Lebanon in particular? Uh, I'm sure there were many women who were very active, uh, uh, uh, uh, particularly, uh, uh, during this period where all these, uh, uh, uh, women journals were being published around the 1920s and even before, uh, in the region, in Syria, in, in, uh, in, uh, uh, the La Grande Syrie, what was called at that time, the, uh, La Grande Syrie, um- Uh, yeah, I mean, also I'm very much interested in this woman who, uh, who lived during-- who has a certain, I can say a hybrid, uh, identity, uh, the, the 1920s, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the, uh, the establishment of the mandate, the French mandate in Lebanon.

Um, I sometimes wondered if this woman, uh, spoke, uh, I don't know, uh, you know, French, Arabic, Turkish.

Uh, what did she read? What...

French paper isn't sold in Egypt.

But it is sold in the French Mandate, such as Lebanon.

But I thought the

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So Lebanese law, um, the origins of it are a mix of, um, Ottoman, uh, codifications that we got from the Ottoman Empire, as well as, uh, a lot of inspirat- uh, inspiration from the French mandate, because we were under French mandate.

And so, for example, our Code des Obligations et des Contrats, our main, uh, um, our main, uh, code for everything that has to do with contracts, obligations, uh, laws on, uh, possessions, uh, and, and transactions, is entirely inspired from the French Code Civil.

So it's a, it, it's a mix of everything.

For example, our, uh, our religious courts, uh, that still, uh, are in place for anything that has to do with, you know, personal, uh, personal status, so marriage, divorce, uh, inheritance, uh, this area is entirely governed by religious courts.