Novedades

Gather the Olives is a dangerous book. That’s because it is about peace in a time when peace in the Holy Land is a faraway, even radical notion. It is about hope and food and community and the way there can be solidarity in sharing a meal. Hence the danger: this book might remind its brave listeners of how peace is nourished and how hope can’t be extinguished.

Despite being a seasoned solo world backpack traveler, Merri Melde discovered a divine new way of traveling after snapping up the chance to visit Egypt with friends, staying with an expat and her countless entertaining rat terriers in her home in the countryside outside of Giza near Cairo. Taken from her travel journals and photos, Melde uses her unique story-telling ability to recount a visit there as an inside-outsider, helping to put on a horse ride in the desert (where the trail turned right at a random sarcophagus), visiting the famous Giza Pyramids, experiencing the famous Khan Al-...