Palestine: A Green Home Away from Home  · Global Voices
Ayesha Saldanha

The American poet Walt Whitman said, “After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.” In this post we hear about two women with a great love of nature: a nun who has found her home in the convent garden, and a city-dwelling mother who has brought her dreams of a village garden to the balcony of her apartment.
Ruba Anabtawi has interviewed Sister Angela, a nun with a special love of plants. She was born in Lebanon but is now with the Rosary Sisters in Beit Hanina to the north of Jerusalem:
Sister Angela
So how did this connection to plants develop?
In Akka, Rasha Helwa writes about her mother's garden:
Shadia's garden