Deir

Over twenty years ago, my father drove my mother 10 miles from a small town called Deir Debwan near Ramallah to a hospital in Jerusalem.

Hammad Hammad: Jerusalem Isn't Just for Jews 2009

Over twenty years ago, my father drove my mother 10 miles from a small town called Deir Debwan near Ramallah to a hospital in Jerusalem.

Hammad Hammad: Jerusalem Isn't Just for Jews 2009

Over twenty years ago, my father drove my mother 10 miles from a small town called Deir Debwan near Ramallah to a hospital in Jerusalem.

Hammad Hammad: Jerusalem Isn't Just for Jews 2009

These workers were the tomb carvers, craftsmen, artists, and painters who normally resided over the valley, about three miles from the Valley of the Kings, in a village called Deir el Medina.

KV 63: A Look at the New Tomb 2006

Collaborating with them on what is known as the Deir Al-Surian Library Project is the Levantine Foundation.

1,500-year-old Coptic Library Argent 2006

This village is known as Deir el Belah, or, more frequently, merely as Belah.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

But Homs, a city of two million, and its relatively unified Sunni Muslim majority, offered far more resistance than Hama and other large towns, namely Deir al-Zour, Lattakia and Baniyas, which the government stormed in August, at the onset of a shift in strategy to crush the uprising almost solely through force of arms.

NYT > Home Page By ANTHONY SHADID 2011

Just above the well, on the side of the mountain, are the ruins of a convent, called Deir

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

Just above the well, on the side of the mountain, are the ruins of a convent, called Deir

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 1822

Under Senmut’s genius was created a magnificent temple, called Deir el Bahari, out of the sheer rock cliff that looks down on the temple of Amen-Ra.

King/Pharaoh Hatshepsut, An Awesome Lady Ruler 2009