Goodbye, O mourning one
I am to fly home and leave
you here with your thoughts and
sorrows.
I will be sure to kiss the skies,
nest on the olive trees
and feast from our land.
Goodbye, O free one,…
Songs of the Sunbirds
Palestinian Men like Thorns
You call a rose beautiful,
But vilify its thorns like you do Palestinian men
You call daisies weeds and pluck each petal
saying,
He loves me, he loves me not
Each daisy a Palestinian child at its yellow core,
Like …
We are of the land
We bleed to death
On pavements,
On roads,
On land
That welcomes us
In homecoming.
For what else are we,
But the land personified,
In drops of blood?
What else are we
But the lineage of the grains of sand…
Consolation & Refuge(e)
Consolation
I tend to notice birds more often
when sorrow savors my heart
every time i walk these familiar streets a stranger
I don’t know what prayer God is letting out
through migration
through rain
through this earthly misery
Last …
Auntie Arwa’s Palestinian Mini Cookbook
Auntie-Arwas-Palestinian-Mini-CookbookDownload
Arwa Khamees Hasan Ghannam…
The most beautiful thing in life is for you to discover your value. To see in the eyes of those you love a reflection of yourself that you’ve never seen before.
Ambition, perseverance, and determination …
Daughter of Lightning
Loud.
It’s loud,
dark,
cold.
The rain is pouring down on Gaza.
Even the clouds weep,
witnessing this genocide.
Two young sisters,
holding on to each other,
shivering while the water pools around them.
There’s nowhere to go.
There are …
“Songs of the Sunbirds”
When I saw the Songs of the Sunbirds announcement, I just knew I had to make something special for this column.
In those dire times, I worked day and night on this piece, trying to keep myself sane. Trying to …
Teta’s Mane’eesh Recipe
When I think of my childhood as a Palestinian, I think about fatayer and manaeesh; the soft aromatic bread topped with your preferred toppings, as for me, it was always zataar and cheese. I must give credit to my teta …
Palestinian Breakfast
Palestinian breakfast (2024)
15×15.3 inches
Digital painting.
A glimpse of a Palestinian breakfast table; harvested, cooked, and plated with love.
Palestinian Gazan, Noor V. Aerbay, is a digital illustrator, children book artist, poetry prose writer, and full time cat lover.
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