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Nabulsi Soap Tower

Also known as Sabun Nabulsi · صابون نابلسي

Nabulsi Soap Tower: photograph by Davidbena
Photo: Davidbena, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Cut cooled olive-oil soap slabs into cubes, stamp each, then stack them into airy cones and towers so air flows and nothing falls, over weeks of drying.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Palestine.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Mesopotamia, Levant and Arabia.

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