In our first promocast release, Olive Oil & Time host Nourah sits down with Chicago based Palestinian textile artist Kiki Salem to discuss how she weaves her identity through her art. This conversation focuses on "futurizing" our traditional cultures as Palestinian youth in diaspora in order to recreate and create our identities and communities to face our modern challenges and cultivate love and worth in our lives.
Olive Oil & Time's promocasts will be released as a mini series alongside our podcasts, with the aims to promote the amazing work of Palestinians in the diaspora, as well as the watan. Please check out our Facebook page @oliveoilandtime for more information and resources on this promocast, as well as staying up-to-day with our coming podcast series.  


Hosted by: Maxine Anwaar and Samer Owaida
Produced by: Maxine Anwaar
Edited by: Maxine Anwaar
Music by: Leve Palestina, Krossa Sionismen (Long Live Palestine, Crush Zionism) by Swedish Arabic group Kofia.

Promocast 1: Conversation with Palestinian Textile Artist Kiki Salem

In episode 1, Nourah & Samer discuss the history of political rape used by Zionist colonizers in Palestine to expedite the ethnic cleansing of our communities, how the Palestinian national struggle attempted to counter act this with the slogan "Land Before Honor", the sidelining of the Palestinian women's movement by mainstream discourse and how this historical framework leads into the increase of domestic violence in Palestinian households and the lack of social accountability. 

This podcast also gives listeners a glimpse into the lives of the hosts of this show by sharing stories and struggle of our mothers that informs the way each host engages both our society and our world. 

Thank you for all the support we have received as we have put this project together. We are excited to share this project with ya'll, and hope it can be a platform that engages the Palestinian community. Please reach out to us on either Facebook or Twitter with any questions, comments or criticisms of the material we are sharing with you today.

Hosted by: Maxine Anwaar and Samer Owaida
Produced by: Maxine Anwaar
Edited by: Maxine Anwaar
Music by: Marcel Khalife, Ya Oumi
Poem by: Mahmoud Darwish, Ya Oumi

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E1: Land Before Honor

Chicago based Palestinian-Lebanese MMA fighter Ramy Daoud sits down with Olive Oil & Time host Nourah to discuss his work. In this podcast, Nourah and Ramy discuss the difficulty of vocalizing Palestinian heritage and  toxic masculinity in the Arab community. Rami calls upon men in the Arab community to "do better." 

This episode also gives listeners a glimpse into how masculinity is often projected onto younger people in our community, and how Rami challenges these structures.

Hosted by: Nourah and Samer
Edited by: Nourah
Art by: Nourah
Music by: DAM - How You Are

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Promocast 2: Palestinian MMA Fighter Ramy Daoud Talks About Identity & Toxic Masculinity

This episodes stitches together three recordings with Palestinian painter Jeanette Habash, as she sat down to Olive Oil & Time hosts to discuss her processes as a painter. As we put together this conversation, we attempted to honor her processes of layering her work by overlapping recordings of the artist and her grandfather, Dawood Habash, who is sampled at the end recalling how the British supported Zionist colonizers. 

Hosted by: Maxine and Samer
Edited by: Maxine
Art by: Samer and Maxine
Music by: Le Trio Joubran- Nawwar

P3: The Art of Remembering & Forgetting a Conversation with Palestinian Painter Jeanette Habash

In this episode, Nourah is speaking with Fayrouz Sharqawi in Jerusalem on the negative impacts of NGOs on Palestinian liberation efforts and the gentrification of East Jerusalem by Western/international aid workers. 

Fayrouz is a co-founder and organizer with Grassroots Al-Quds, a crowd-source funded Palestinian organization in Jerusalem. Their organization is working to create a sustainable model for Palestinian organizations to fund their efforts without being tied to the constraints set by traditional Western aid. Check out their website to get more information on how you can get involved & support their efforts.

website: http://grassrootsalquds.net
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsjerusalem/

Hosted by: Maxine 
Edited by: Maxine
Art by: Maxine
Music by: Jbeineh by Sabreen

P4: Grassroots Al-Quds [Part 1] NGOs in Palestine

Queer Palestinian Podcast Deconstructing Zionist Narratives and Reclaiming Our History. This platform hosts both a main podcast series, as well as mini episodes, which we call promocasts.

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