Where Olive Trees Weep is a heartbreakingly beautiful and poignant documentary about the struggles and resilience of Ashira Darwish, Ahed Tamimi, and other Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice, featuring Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté offering trauma healing work for Palestinian women tortured in Israeli prisons.

This screening includes a Q&A with Ashira Darwish hosted by Selma Dabbagh.

Selma Dabbagh

Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer of fiction and trained lawyer who lives in London. Selma’s first novel, Out of It, was published by Bloomsbury in 2011/2012 and was nominated as a Guardian Book of the Year. Selma has also written and published numerous short stories with Granta, Wasafiri, Saqi, Telegram, International PEN and others.  Several of her short stories have been nominated for awards, including PEN and Pushcart. Selma holds a PhD from the University of London and she works with the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) in London.

Ashira Darwish

Ashira Ali Darwish worked for 15 years as a TV and radio journalist and researcher in Palestine for the BBC, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. She is the founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing, a trauma therapy project pioneering a type of Sufi active meditation that draws its roots from ancestral and Indigenous knowledge.