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Three simple ingredients - olive oil, water and lye - have been combined for centuries to make soap in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The city has become known for ...

Olive oil soap has been manufactured in the West Bank for centuries — but today, there are just two soap factories still operating. Now, a once thriving industry is struggling to stay afloat. We went ...

Salem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – 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 ...

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 ...

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters Life!) - Walking on water may be a familiar tale from the Holy Land, but in the heart of ancient Nablus, Majoud Malawani walks on soap. Roomfuls of it. The white slabs an ...

Nablusi soap, made across the West Bank, has been added to UNESCO's list of intangible world heritage — Zain JAAFAR Initiated into the thousand-year-old practice of Nablus soap making by a distant ...