Plates
Plate 1. Nablus from the slopes of Mount Gerzim, late nineteenth century. Engraving on steel (Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, 1:248).
Plate 2. Nablus from the southwestern slopes of Mount Ebal, late nineteenth century. Engraving on steel (Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, 1:249).
Plate 3. Nablus from the western approaches, 1855. Engraving on wood from a drawing by David Roberts (Croly, The Holy Land, 1:plate 42).
Plate 4. Peasants threshing wheat near an olive tree, late nineteenth century. Engraving on wood (Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, 1:227).
Plate 5. Inverted cones of stacked soap cubes (tananir) stand watch like silent sentinels over two workers cutting soap in a Nablus factory. From Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876–1948. Courtesy of the Institute for Palestine Studies.
Plate 6. Arafat Family Tree.