El parisino

We are in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War. The Arab countries of the Middle East do not yet exist. Jerusalem and Damascus belong to the Ottoman Empire. The Palestinian Midhat travels to France to study medicine and falls in love with the daughter of his French host, but during a conversation a misunderstanding occurs and the young man goes to Paris, where he participates in controversies, seduces women, studies at the Sorbonne. The European war ends and Midhat returns to Palestine, but he has not forgotten his French beloved. She has not forgotten him either, and writes him a letter that Midhat does not receive. Meanwhile, France and Britain share control of the Middle East; In order to contain the Arab demands, countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Syria are inventing, and they facilitate the immigration of thousands of Jews, who are taking over Palestinian soil. Midhat has gotten married, has a cloth business, everything seems to be going well. But the past returns when he finds the letter from the French beloved, which had been intercepted and hidden by his father. A letter that is like the lost western opportunity. Midhat goes into crisis and goes crazy. His insanity lasted as long as the general strike of 1936, which marked the start of the Arab rebellion against Jewish immigration and the British imperialism that supported it.