and from there back into Jordan. In Jenin, I lodge at theCinema Guesthouse, a failing solidarity-tourism project. German filmmakers rented it a few years back, planning cultural revival for a small cinema—Palestine’s first, established in the 1960s, but since shut...
The staff's role as an aid to travel was exemplified in the hands of pilgrims and shepherds. These wooden staffs usually were heavy sticks about 5 feet long. Very often the tops of the sticks held secret compartments for carrying valuables or for smuggling contraband. Records show that ...