- Title: Fifty Years in Palestine (خمسون عاماً في فلسطين).
- Author: Frances Emily Newton (فرنسيس إميلي نيوتن).
- Translator: Wadih Al-Bustani وديع البستاني
- Subject: Memoirs of the Arab's friend, Frances Emily Newton (فنسيس إميلي نيوتن).
- Category: Politics. Palestine.
- Year: 1947
- Edition: --
- Publisher: Maṭābi' Ṣādir wa Dījānī مطابع صادر ريحاني
- Printed in: Beirut
- Pages: 184
- Format: Softcover.
- Size: 13x18cm approx. 9.5"x7"
- Condition: Very Good+.
- Historical Overview & Content:
-This work serves as a vital historical and biographical record written just prior to the 1948 Nakba. In it, Frances Emily Newton details her extensive observations spanning half a century in Palestine. Despite her British citizenship, she became an outspoken critic of British Mandate policies and Zionism, documenting:
- The socio-economic lives of Palestinian villages, farmers, and urban centers.
- Personal accounts of the British administration and political changes.
- Direct documentation of local resistance, human rights violations, and the destruction of Palestinian villages during the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt.