When the Holy Land became the Orient Holy Land despite it and without notice

The Holy Land refers to a territory located between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea including Israel, the Palestinian territories, parts of southern Lebanon and south-west Syria. Jews, Christians and Muslims consider it all sacred. The sanctity of the earth as a destination of Christian pilgrimage has contributed to the launch of a cultural conquest of America. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, many Americans went to Jerusalem to visit this sacred place they consider pure, or to write about it. Since then, the Holy Land has become a fad for American writers who go there. These…