When I was home last, I spent some time with Prof Mazin Qumsiyeh
Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in occupied Bethlehem.
Always generously teaching us about the land, the trees, the waters, the skies, the birds, the bees and our rich biodiversity that is devastatingly destroyed by the brutality of Israeli military occupation.
Ecocide upon genocide.
I look to our elders and plant kin to remind me to stay tender, to keep heart, and keep hope. Faith is strong.
Prof Mazin always signs off his letters with ‘Stay Human’.
To you I want to say;
Stay Human.
Stay Tender.
Rasha Tayeh 