“ The sharing and gifting of food in moments of despair is not a denial of the pain and uncertainty, but it is a recreation of the energy of survivance: moving the conversation from retelling the violence in “the use of food as a weapon” to recentring the relationship between Land and its peoples, for revival and reclamation.”

“Every element made sure that we will remember

Who has fed this soul the ingredients that will forever belong here

Memory dominating our minds with what we love…”

“...trees sense their caretakers’ intention, and if the work one puts into a garden, or into caring for a tree, is with the intention of profiting from it, the trees do not flourish.”

“Planting the Australian trees in Palestine contributed to one of the predominant Zionist narratives of “made the desert bloom”, where the landscape obviously was neither desert nor arid but simply was not to the newcomers’/settlers’ taste”

“The reproduction of endemic plants is actually reproducing the memory of their relationships with humans.”

“Colonialism is also a social machine that runs on the imagination of its settlers, and keeps them detached from the reality of their existence.”

“In the Palestinian post-liberation imaginary, preserving the liberated lands all across Palestine would require all farmers to exercise their right to self-determination in farming. This is central to the Palestinian people’s wish to reclaim their land from the occupation and serves as the cornerstone upon which a Palestinian state is built, thus leaning back onto the “land”, as both a possession and a vital existence.”

“…we also need to look at Palestinian farming from a more scientific perspective, rather than just through the nostalgic lens of grandmothers and tradition. There’s value in analysing and understanding ancient Palestinian agriculture—where it came from and how it evolved.” 

“They put up thin fences that separated us from what we were used to touching, caring for, foraging, and eating; claiming that, by doing so, they’re protecting nature, when in fact, they put up those fences to cut us off from our contiguity.”

“The play conflates existence and the struggle for liberation as an inherent part of the Palestinian experience.”

“and the beginning was a clementine a seed from the spheres of time that encountered the moon’

“…in the context of continued dispossession, our stories are what can root us into a deeper sense of belonging to a place. In that way, our practice of remembrance preserves a collective memory. It gives a texture to the past but ultimately serves our present and gives us a foil through which we can question where we are heading.”