the morning of the ceasefire should have been one of joy and hope for my friend aboud in gaza. instead, in the hours leading up to it (saturday night for me), he was sending me recordings of him and his friends being shelled and shot at by israeli soldiers
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![You can send monetary gifts and purchase art with all sales donated for Aboud's Birthday!
"Birds and Olives" is a home-printed chapbook featuring nine original poems by Gazan poet Aboud Al-Najjar, translated from Arabic to English by Aboud.
Stickers. Palestinian Sunbird by pocketsizedquasar [pocket sized quasar written without spaces] and Mountain Gazelle by Lexx
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The preceding text is on a square slide with a pale yellow background with a scattering of tiny stars in faded teal, mustard, and pink.
To the left of the text about the chapbook is a rounded rectangle photo of four copies of a chapbook with a colorful cover spread across a black surface. The title is "Birds and Olives: Poetry by Aboud Al-Najjar", and the cover background is of lines quoted from one of his poems in the sky behind Levant sparrowhawks and a leafy olive branch made from paper and fabric.
To the right of the text about stickers are images of the two stickers.
One is a square with a Palestinian sunbird sitting perched on olive branches. It is a small black and blue songbird with a teal-turquoise shimmer on its head and upper wings. The background is a faded scene of a beach at sunset in the colors of the Palestinian flag: red, green, black, and white. The artist’s signature “@pocketsizedquasar” is written over one of the branches on the bottom left.
The second sticker is art of a Palestinian Mountain Gazelle with a keffiyeh draped around its neck. Behind the gazelle is a Palestinian flag with Free Palestine written in the black and white stripes of the flag to the right of the gazelle's face. The sticker has a narrow white background that follows the irregular shape of the gazelle and flag.
Aboud's birthday is written in a pine green brush-stroke font that is outlined in tangerine red. The rest of the heading is in a tangerine red sans serif font. The main text is in a black sans serif font.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pssov6e63xknvax6pp72dtlg/bafkreihwxwkp3usndwaulnlb5jhvhgsa3wy3723kpsjxni32gzuzpjmhae)
