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Our weddings are beautiful

We parade the newlyweds through the streets of their neighborhood. We offer food to anyone who comes to celebrate with us. We offer good bread, good meet and good coffee. We dance in the streets, and fill our lives with flowers for many days.

Our funerals are sad

We drape our dead in white, and carry them silently to their graves. At their graves, we recite the Quran, or a Christian prayer. We mourn for three days, and sometimes for forty days. We grow our beards, and wear black, and offer food on behalf of our dead.

When a child is born

we give him a good name. We give our girls names that mean "hope", "beautiful eye", "rare jewel" and "good wishes". We give our sons names derived from the words of courage, praise, ease, service and the names of the prophets. At the seventh day of the birth of a child we offer food to our neighbors and relatives, and announce the boy or girl's good name.

We love our elderly

We have no retirement homes. The old never retire, and when they get too old to work, live with their children, until Alllaah calls them to meet Him.

Our people are like olive trees

They're cared for when they are a year old, and when they are many years old, and in between, they give so much to so many.

We love our olive trees

We all go olive picking. Our olive groves are our national parks and picking olives is our national pastime. From olive trees we've learned to give when we have and don't have. We've learned to stand firm on our land, and we've learned to be at peace with land, people and Alllaah.

We are a faithful people

and our land is a land of Prophets. Moses longed for our land, and for him we've erected a special monument. We have olive trees that offered Jesus shade, and a rock that was Muhammad's stepping stone into heaven. The Christian parades into the Church of the Nativity are lead by Muslims. Muslim children anxiously await the treats of Easter. Ramadan and Christmas are seasons for all. Mosque minarets and church bells flirt together in our bright skies.

We are also expert linguists

We are the first to coin the term "Intifada" (uprising). The "Intifada" is our song of freedom, our rebellion against the cage of occupation, and our anthem of hope. Some call it resistance. Some call it terrorism. Others call it revolutionary violence and some describe it as civil disobedience. We just call it "Intifada".

A few of us

cannot cope with their gardens uprooted, with the homes of their sorrow and happiness demolished, and with their loved ones decimated. They give in to despair, and take their lives and the lives of others with them. The rest of us, the vast majority of us, hold on to life and land and insist on survival against all odds.

We are the Palestinian People

We are as old as history and as young as the future. We are human pyramids of perseverance, patience, love and anger. They can suppress us, but we will erupt again. They can kill us, but we will come to life again. No matter what they do, our free spirits will fly. Our tongues will tell our story, and our teeth will bite the chains of occupation.

"The Christ of of Nazareth (peace and blessings upon him and his mother the best woman Alllaah ever has created, the virgin Maryam), touched our lips when we spoke, and guided our hands when we wrote; and we shall uphold all that we have said and all that we have written.

We are the descendant of a people that built Damascus and Byblos, and Tyre and Sidon and Antioch, Cadiz and Carthage, Ashkelon, Acre, Ugarit, Arvad, Ramitha, Gebal, Baalbeck, Tripoli, Myriandrus, Karatepe, Samal, Finike, Tipasa, Leptis Magna, Tangier, Lixus, Palermo, Motya,Marseille, Genoa, Tarragona, San Roque, Lebrija, Huelva, Malaga, Almuñécar, Cartagena, , Palermo, Cagliari, Ibiza, Citium, Nora, Zama...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

... placed his hand on his shoulder and said:
“Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a wayfarer.”

Looking the world through the people's eyes.

- I believe we all try to make the world a better place. Of course, different folk hold so very different views on what a better world should look like...
Still, we try hard and the outcome is not that bad, altogether.

Interests

- I love to meet people from all walks of life.
To learn about different people... etc and to share!
Please say stop by and say Salaam if you like :)

- I like to try almost everything at least once.

- Seeker of knowledge and facts, while a polymath.

• dining
• coffee
• flying
• flowers
• socializing
• survival
• history
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

The Holy Qur'aan.

Omar Al-Mukhtar (you can find it HD on youtube easily under the name "Lion of the Desert" )

http://youtu.be/c-7V6YpWDnw

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Loads, ask me when we meet!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to live it well and how to die at your best.
"Strive for life as if you would live forever, and strive for your afterlife as you would die tomorrow"

- If you want to know about Palestine then you better watch this lovely brother Rabbi Dovid Weiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4fs4xDJx4

What I Can Share with Hosts

You are treated and mistreated like friends. The game is simple: alBaytu Baytuka (Mi casa es su casa ).

- I guess I would like to follow a golden rule...
Treat others, the way you would like to be treated :)
It is always worked for me!