Khurafiyyat al-Ma’ wa al-Teen, 2025



In collaboration with Ayn Hawd, we held a gathering titled “Khurafiyyat al-Ma’ wa al-Teen / A Tale of Water and Clay” atop a rooftop in Mohammad Amin Refugee Camp. Together with a group of Palestinian women, we transformed this space into a magical realm of imagination and spiritual practices, a sanctuary for urgent transformation in these painful times, weaving together tangible and intangible threads of Palestinian culture into reality.

We began the evening with the collective recitation of Qur’anic verses over clay Fear Cups filled with water, drinking from them to prepare our bodies and spirits dive into the spectral of Palestinian magical reality.

We journeyed through two Palestinian folktales, The Fisherman and The Kitchen Bear, reading them aloud, sharing reflections, and allowing their worlds to ripple through us. From there, we wove our own story, drawing upon a tapestry of magical and material elements, creatures, and symbols rooted in Palestinian experience and entwining them with the textures of our current lived reality.

The rooftop became a living vessel of memory, imagination, and resistance, a place where stories, bodies, and spirits converge to nurture hope, and the enduring power of resistance through imagination and connection with cultural practices.

This gathering is partly funded by MMAG Foundation