My Olive Tree - Hazar Elbayya artists In Say Yes

In Say Yes

And there are surely just as many ways of writing it

Throughout the summer of 2006

Translating a selection of Instagram posts into print

as well as poetry by Samira Negrouche and a graphic essay by Nawel Louerrad

My Olive Tree - Hazar Elbayya artists In Say YesIn this simple, touching picture book about the healing power of a loving community, a girl's grandpa and her neighbors help her grow an olive tree in a war torn land. Salam's grandpa says that olive trees are strong and that their roots run deep in their Palestinian land. They connect everyone from the farmer who presses the olives into oil to the baker who uses the oil in his taboon. Salam plants her own seed and is eager to see it grow. She waits