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Fire Mountain: Nablus, Palestine

Series: A photographic tour of Palestine narrated by quotes from my book, Fugitive Dreams: Chronicles of Occupation and Resistance.

View of Nablus from Mt. Ebal (Photo by the author, 2019)

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“Nablus lies in the center of the northern portion of the West Bank. The city is nestled in the valley between two mountains.” (Photos by the author, 2019)

“Mother faced a new beginning. Her entire life was uprooted. Her belongings all gone, her memories of Yafa relegated to oblivion. She was 16 years old in the earliest photograph I saw of her. Her childhood photos were left in Yafa, to be trampled by the bulldozers that knocked down her house. In Nablus, her education helped her find nursing work with the Red Cross, administering basic medical care to the thousands of refugee children flooding the city.”

Olive terraces along the village roads between Ramallah and Nablus (Photo by the author, 2019)

“By the time we reached Silwad, almost halfway to Nablus, the sun peeked over the ridge. The golden sunlight glittered over the olive leaves, casting a spectrum of hues on the brownish soil.”