In this village, children learn both Arabic and Hebrew in school, and celebrate Hanukkah, Ramadan and Christmas. “I had a beautiful childhood here,” said Nur Najjar, 34, who was born in the ...

Hotel Yehuda, located near Jerusalem’s Malha neighborhood, offers luxury and a spectacular view of the Holy City’s picturesque Massuah Hills. This four-star, five-floor, recently renovated ...

The oasis, along with most of the area around the Dead Sea, remained empty of permanent settlers for the next 3,000 years. “We don’t know exactly why no one lived around here in that period ...

Situated at an oasis in the desert frontier separating the empires of Rome and Parthia, Palmyra grew to an estimated population of 150,000-200,000 at its height in the third century CE.

Co-education directors at the Oasis of Peace, Nir Sharon and Samah Salaimeh, chat on a bench in the school yard. (ABC News: Tom Joyner)"It's working," said Samah Salaimeh, a Palestinian citizen of ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...

A thousand years ago, the Iberian peninsula was a cultural oasis – until a million of its Arabic manuscripts were destroyed. Benjamin Ramm explains how its poetry lives on.

Some 1,500 years ago, a fire raged through an oasis on the Dead Sea’s western shore, destroying a thriving Jewish community that had lived there for centuries. Yet amid the conflagration, the ...