Discover Palestinian Cities
Abu Dis, Palestine: A Jerusalem Hill Town and I...
Abu Dis, Palestine takes its name from a puzzle no historian has fully closed. Abu Dis (أبو ديس) may come from a Roman-era village recorded as Beta Budison, or from...
Abu Dis, Palestine: A Jerusalem Hill Town and I...
Abu Dis, Palestine takes its name from a puzzle no historian has fully closed. Abu Dis (أبو ديس) may come from a Roman-era village recorded as Beta Budison, or from...
Al-Bireh, Palestine: Ramallah's Twin City and I...
Al-Bireh, Palestine takes its name from a well. In Arabic, al-Bira (البيرة) means "the well," and the town that grew up around that water source now sits on the central...
Al-Bireh, Palestine: Ramallah's Twin City and I...
Al-Bireh, Palestine takes its name from a well. In Arabic, al-Bira (البيرة) means "the well," and the town that grew up around that water source now sits on the central...
Beit Jala, Palestine: The Terraced Vineyards an...
Aerial view of Beit Jala's terraced hillside town. Matson Collection, Library of Congress, public domain. Cremisan Cellars has pressed grapes on the terraced hills above Beit Jala (بيت جالا) since...
Beit Jala, Palestine: The Terraced Vineyards an...
Aerial view of Beit Jala's terraced hillside town. Matson Collection, Library of Congress, public domain. Cremisan Cellars has pressed grapes on the terraced hills above Beit Jala (بيت جالا) since...
Battir, Palestine: The UNESCO Terraces and the ...
TL;DR: Battir, Palestine, a farming village between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, still waters its stone terraces through a 2,000 year old irrigation system built in the Roman period. That system, and...
Battir, Palestine: The UNESCO Terraces and the ...
TL;DR: Battir, Palestine, a farming village between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, still waters its stone terraces through a 2,000 year old irrigation system built in the Roman period. That system, and...
Rafah, Palestine: History, Heritage and Palesti...
Rafah Columns, 1881. From Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg's travel account of the region. Public domain. Rafah, Palestine (رفح) sits at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, on the sand and...
Rafah, Palestine: History, Heritage and Palesti...
Rafah Columns, 1881. From Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg's travel account of the region. Public domain. Rafah, Palestine (رفح) sits at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, on the sand and...
Qalqilya (Qalqiliya), Palestine: History, the G...
Qalqilya held 27,915 dunums in 1945 and lost its orange groves to the 1949 armistice line. It replanted, and now grows most of Palestine's guava.
Qalqilya (Qalqiliya), Palestine: History, the G...
Qalqilya held 27,915 dunums in 1945 and lost its orange groves to the 1949 armistice line. It replanted, and now grows most of Palestine's guava.