wadi

Most Allentown residents of Syrian heritage are Orthodox Christians from the Wadi-al-Nasara region in western Homs province.

Even with a GPS, it was easy to get disoriented in a wadi, or to mistake one trail for another.

Hadeel, a vivacious 27-year-old from the Wadi Ara region, teaches Arabic in a Jewish Israeli elementary school.

What he may not know is that from this museum, the site of the Deir Yassin massacre is visible just across the wadi.

He knows the topography and geography of Israel/Palestine, literally street by street and wadi by wadi.

Melons are also extensively cultivated here, more particularly in Wadi, and are preserved for some time by hanging.

The large palm wood lies to the right of the Wadi, and stretches down nearly to the sea.

To the left of the Wadi are many vegetable gardens, with numerous wells.

The wood stretches for some distance over the broad surface of the Wadi, which, when swollen, frequently uproots many trees.

Then we reached the opposite side of the Wadi, of cliff-like character, the clay of which is much worn away by the water.