Exiled Prisoners Give Gaza Taste of West Bank Dessert
Two exiled Palestinian prisoners have opened a dessert shop in Gaza offering a delicacy from the West Bank, which is proving popular among locals, Abeer Ayyoub writes.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — It took Nader Abu Turki, a freed prisoner from the West Bank who was deported to Gaza, more than a year to realize how nostalgic people in Gaza miss the desserts made in his home city of Nablus.
So, he teamed up with another ex-prisoner, Hammouda Salah from Nablus, who was also expelled to Gaza as part of an exchange deal between Hamas and Israel in 2011, and opened a beachside shop selling nabulsia, the famed kenafah dessert which originated in Salah's hometown.
The nabulsia is made of soft white cheese, topped with pastry noodles or orange-hued phyllo dough and dappled with a sweet syrup.
The two had each thought of the project separately, but were not able to support their ideas individually due to a lack of funds. They realized they shared the same objective when they met in a deported prisoners’ gathering in Gaza, and decided to open their shop, Al-Nabulsy.
