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The Kadoorie Agricultural School at Tulkarm in the early 1930s, a long stone building with an arcaded veranda standing above ploughed furrows and a wire fence

Tulkarm (Tulkarem), Palestine: History, the Kad...

The people of Tulkarm gave away 600 dunums of their own farmland so that a school could be built to teach farming on it. The vineyard hill, the Kadoorie Agricultural...

Tulkarm (Tulkarem), Palestine: History, the Kad...

The people of Tulkarm gave away 600 dunums of their own farmland so that a school could be built to teach farming on it. The vineyard hill, the Kadoorie Agricultural...

The cobbled main street of Beisan around 1920, with stone shopfronts, market awnings and townspeople, as water is sluiced across the paving from an open gutter

Beisan (Bisan), Palestine: History of Scythopol...

Rome paid more for cloth woven in Beisan than for cloth woven almost anywhere else in the empire. Bisan in the Jordan Valley was an Egyptian provincial seat, the leading...

Beisan (Bisan), Palestine: History of Scythopol...

Rome paid more for cloth woven in Beisan than for cloth woven almost anywhere else in the empire. Bisan in the Jordan Valley was an Egyptian provincial seat, the leading...

The Great Omari Mosque and its stone minaret rising above the rooftops of Gaza in the 1940s

Gaza (Ghazza): History of Palestine's Ancient P...

Gaza (Ghazza): History of Palestine's Ancient Port City When the armies of the pharaoh Thutmose III marched out of Egypt in the fifteenth century BCE, the first city their records...

Gaza (Ghazza): History of Palestine's Ancient P...

Gaza (Ghazza): History of Palestine's Ancient Port City When the armies of the pharaoh Thutmose III marched out of Egypt in the fifteenth century BCE, the first city their records...

The tall square stone minaret known as the White Tower, all that survives of the White Mosque in Ramla

Ramla (al-Ramla): History of a Palestinian City...

Ramla, Palestine (al-Ramla): History of a City and Its Heritage Almost every Palestinian city is older than Islam. Ramla is the exception. Ramla, Palestine, is the one major town that...

Ramla (al-Ramla): History of a Palestinian City...

Ramla, Palestine (al-Ramla): History of a City and Its Heritage Almost every Palestinian city is older than Islam. Ramla is the exception. Ramla, Palestine, is the one major town that...

Lydda, Palestine: History of al-Lidd

Lydda (al-Lidd): History of a Palestinian City ...

Lydda, in Arabic al-Lidd and today Lod, is a Palestinian city on the coastal plain. This profile traces its Canaanite origins, the Church of Saint George, the Great Mosque of...

Lydda (al-Lidd): History of a Palestinian City ...

Lydda, in Arabic al-Lidd and today Lod, is a Palestinian city on the coastal plain. This profile traces its Canaanite origins, the Church of Saint George, the Great Mosque of...

Jericho: Oldest City in the World

Jericho (Ariha), Palestine: The Oldest City in ...

Jericho, in Arabic Ariha, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. This Palestinian city in the West Bank holds Tell es-Sultan, the spring of Ein es-Sultan, and Hisham's...

Jericho (Ariha), Palestine: The Oldest City in ...

Jericho, in Arabic Ariha, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. This Palestinian city in the West Bank holds Tell es-Sultan, the spring of Ein es-Sultan, and Hisham's...