Secrets Of Palestinians’ Nablus-Soap Making
Salem: Initiated into the thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making by a distant relative, Umm al-Abed is now passing on the secrets of the practice newly designated by UNESCO as intangible world heritage. Umm al-Abed handcrafts soap at her home in the village of Salem, east of Nablus, in one of many small soap workshops…