Nablus has long been a bastion of Palestinian resistance. The city played a leading role in the 1834 rebellion against Egyptian forces, in the 1936-1939 revolts against joint Zionist and British colonialism, and in the Intifadas. This is a legacy that is upheld today 3/
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My favourite mural in all of Palestine. In the Old City of Nablus, my ancestors' home, the eyes of a resistance fighter peer at us through their kuffiyeh, underneath reading “Nablus / Mountain of Fire”. A common nickname for Nablus & we've been reminded in recent days why 1/
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It refers at once to the mountains that the city is set into, and to the molten fire of resistance that flows between them. Both feature of the land of Nablus, and volcano from which the fire of resistance erupts 2/
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Weathered and faded, the image has been chipped away at by time, to the point that the letter “ra” in “Nar” (Fire) is no longer actually present, but inferred. However, we can read that fire in the eyes of the resistant Palestinian here, in which it still burns fiercely 4/4
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