Arrabah

Arrabah, (Arabic: عرّابة 'Arrābah), or Arraba or Arrabeh, a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank that is about 13 kilometers to the south-west of Jenin. The village is about 350 meters above the sea level and lies near Sahl Arrabah, a 30-squared-kilometer plain that lies between the two groups of heights of Mount Carmel and Nablus. Arrabah currently has a population of approximately 10,000 that is entirely Muslim.

History

In the 19th nineteenth century the village was the main residence of the Abd al-Hadis, a feudalistic family that dominated over al-Sha'rawiyyah al-Sharqiyyah, an area that included about 20 villages in Kaza Jenin.

Notable people from Arrabah

• Sami Taha (1916-1947), trade unionist; from 1937, general secretary of the Palestine Arab Workers Society.
• Abu Ali Mustafa (1938-2001), secretary general of the PFLP.
• Siham Ardah(1947-2007), poet and writer
• Thabit Mardawi, senior operative in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

References

External links

• The Municipality's official website
• Beshara Doumani's Redicovering Palestine Contains an account of the relations between Jabal Nablus and the Ottomans. (Full text )