By Nadia El-Awady*
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, IslamOnline.net

They say a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Perhaps. But certainly not in trying to depict Palestine. Neither words nor snapshots of the land where prophets once walked could do it any justice. It is no wonder that this land has been fought over for thousands of years.

I took a trip that lasted three weeks in June 2006 through the land of Palestine. It was nothing I had expected from what I had read in books or seen of it in pictures or the media. 

I would like to share with you how I saw Palestine through the lens of my digital camera. Although I took more than 1000 pictures during my stay, I realized upon my return that there was so much that was missing from those pictures. In Palestine, I was in such a state of awe that I wanted to absorb as much as possible with my own eyes. I wanted to etch into memory not only what I saw, but what I felt, heard, and smelled to keep with me forever. 

Come with me on a photojourney through Palestine. I visited Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and some of the Palestinian lands of 1948. It was the trip of a lifetime.

* Nadia El-Awady is IslamOnline.net’s deputy editor-in-chief and managing science editor. She has a bachelor’s degree in medicine from Cairo University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in journalism and mass communications at the American University in Cairo. El-Awady is an award-winning journalist, and is the president of the Arab Science Journalists Association.