November 2022
Dusk, and the lights come on
NablusFrom the archive
A walk through Nablus’s old city
Shoppers under the bunting, a café oven and the arches of the old city, filmed during a walking tour in January 2016.
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Filmed during a walking tour of the old city of Nablus, this short clip follows a stone lane past shoppers and shopfronts, stops at the Tarabeesh coffee shop and restaurant, where a wood fire burns in the oven, and passes under arched passages strung with bunting.
The video was published on Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons licence, and is shown here in full. [Context from the reporting: what has changed in the old city since the video was filmed.]
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