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Historical photograph of young Palestinians at work in the Arab Women's Union workrooms in Ramallah, the town Al-Bireh forms a twin city with

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...

Black and white aerial photograph of Beit Jala, a densely built hillside town surrounded by terraced olive groves and vineyards

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...

A man drinking water from the stone spring of Ain al-Balad in Battir, Palestine

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...

Two ancient stone columns standing in a field at Rafah, Palestine, an 1881 engraving titled Rafah Columns

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...

An Arab orange grove in Palestine photographed between 1934 and 1939, showing the earth channels used to irrigate the orange gardens

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.

Khan Yunis photographed from the tower of its Mamluk castle in July 1917, flat-roofed houses and palm trees spreading out across the southern coastal plain

Khan Yunis, Palestine: History of the Mamluk Kh...

Khan Yunis is one of the few Palestinian cities named after a building, and the building was a rest stop. The Mamluk khan of 1387, the postal road to Damascus,...

Khan Yunis, Palestine: History of the Mamluk Kh...

Khan Yunis is one of the few Palestinian cities named after a building, and the building was a rest stop. The Mamluk khan of 1387, the postal road to Damascus,...