Chorath

[12] Travellers have described it as one of the wildest ravines of the Fertile Crescent, and peculiarly fitted to afford a secure asylum to the persecuted.

[13] Olive trees grow on its banks, and it is home to an array of wildlife including gazelle, hyrax, and egret.

Conder and Kitchener noted, while writing of Qaryut, that "[t]his place, being at the head of Wady Fusail, seems to have given rise to the mediaeval identification of that valley as the Brook Cherith (mentioned by Marino Sanuto in 1321).

"[19] Sanuto commented that the stream extended into Phasaelis, which was named after Prince Phasael, the brother of King Herod.

[21] Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist, and dramatist George Moore (1852–1933) wrote The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story, which was published in 1916.