These Olive Trees storybook A new light is shed

A new light is shed on African women of the Sahel in this book about a brilliantly intelligent 19th century woman-jihadist whose legacy of verse contains political and social commentary

The fight for equal justice and dignity came above all else for the three mothers

and to attain realization of them

The editors

These Olive Trees storybook A new light is shedThe 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