Before walls, before checkpoints, before fear learned the language of law, Gaza was a place where life moved slowly—under olive trees, beside bread ovens, beneath a single sky shared by many faiths.
The Olive Trees Remember is a sweeping literary novel that traces the long arc from Ottoman-era coexistence to modern Gaza's fracture, told through memory, loss, and moral awakening. At its heart stands Mariam—a young woman shaped by inherited stories of dignity and shaken by the daily reality of occupation. As land is taken, silence spreads, and conscience is tested, Mariam begins to ask the question few dare to voice: what was lost when faith became ritual and justice was forgotten?
Moving between past and present, this novel explores how a people disconnected from meaning lose not only land, but soul—and how remembrance can become resistance. Through olive groves, classrooms, borders, and homes, the story weaves together Muslims, Jews, and Christians, revealing both shared humanity and devastating betrayal.
This is not a book of slogans or simple villains. It is a meditation on conscience, power, and responsibility—on what happens when scripture is read without understanding, and when memory refuses to die.
Rooted in Gaza but echoing across the Muslim world, The Olive Trees Remember is a story of endurance, moral reckoning, and the possibility of return—to justice, to meaning, and to the living spirit of the Qur'an.
