These Olive Trees carry on Quran and the poem is in

and the poem is in Arabic

She composed over twenty works and likely wrote more Arabic prose and poetry than any other Muslim woman prior to the twentieth century

Author: Michael Muhammad Knight

A work in progress at the time of the author's death

The topics covered are varied

These Olive Trees carry on Quran and the poem is inThe story of a Palestinian familys ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye. Its 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories