an agricultural college in Tulkarem during the British Mandate by an endowment from the Iraqi-born Jewish philanthropist J.S. Kadoorie in 1930 and then became a university in 2007. Other institutions of higher learning include Al-Quds Open University and two campuses of An-Najah National University. There are seven high schools in Tulkarm, three for girls (al-Adawiah, Jamal Abd al-Nasser, and Al-Khawaja) and three for boys (al-Fadilia, Ihsan Samara, and Adnan Sefareni) and a vocational school for both genders. On September 24, 2016, the PA named a school in Tulkarem after Salah Khalaf. Tulkarem governor Issam Abu Bakr said that the school was named after “martyr Salah Khalaf in order to commemorate the memory of this great national fighter”. Culture The traditional costumes of women from Tulkarm were plain, dark-colored gowns with or without embroidery, as most rural women were from the north of Palestine. Today, embroidery is the main source of income for the women of the city. The most popular embroidered images are maps of historic Palestine. The Palestinian dish musakhan is popular in the city. Tulkarm shares many of its cultural features with neighboring Haifa, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilia, and Jaffa. A Tulkarm amusement park called Mega Land attracts tens of thousands of visitors on Muslim holidays. Sports Tulkarm has 2 semi-professional soccer teams; Thaqafi Tulkarm and Markez Shabab Tulkarm. Both are in the Palestinian League Division One. Notable people Sanaa Alsarghali Abu Salma (1909–1980) Akram Al-Ashqar, film maker Ekrem Akurgal, Turkish archaeologist born in 1911 in Tulkarm Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian Israeli-Arab Muslim journalist Mar'i al-Karmi (1580–1624) Mahmoud Al-Karmi (1889–1939) Hasan Karmi (1905–2007) Abdul-Ghani Al-Karmi (1906–1974) Zuhair Al-Karmi (1921–2009) Ameen Nayfeh, film maker and writer Queen Rania of Jordan Bassam Lotfi (1940-2022) References Bibliography External links Welcome To Tulkarm R.C. Tulkarem City, Welcome to Palestine Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons Al-Salim, Farid. Tulkarm Landed Property and Elite Conflict in Ottoman Tulkarm Jerusalem Quarterly''. Official website www.tulkarm.org www.mtulkarm.com Tulkarm Governorate Cities in the West Bank Municipalities of the State of Palestine