With Omar Asi 

Saturday 7 November 2026, 12:00–13:30 
Location: The Palestinian Museum 
Language: Arabic 

What can plant names and folk sayings tell us about how people have lived with and learnt from the land? 
Join environmental researcher and writer Omar Asi for a guided walk through the Palestinian Museum’s terraced gardens, exploring Palestine’s plant lore. Discover how familiar plants go by different names from one region to another, and what these names reveal about local knowledge and connections to place. 
Along the way, Omar shares the stories behind warnings about sleeping beneath carob trees, comparisons with thorny brambles, and sayings about autumn rain. Each expression carries something of the observations and experiences that have shaped people’s understanding of plants and the seasons and found their way into everyday language and cultural memory.