Honor of UM Adnan | Views

For the first time I met with the Um of Adan in 2006 in the southern Lebanese village of Chehabie, which is located not far from the border with Israel and regularly suffers accordinglyS I traveled to Lebanon shortly after the end of the 34-day Israeli attack on this summer, which killed about 1,200 people and downplayed the country with the country with unsecured ammunitionS

Um Adnan was born in 1939, nine years before Israel violence on the Palestinian land. She married a Palestinian refugee from the vicinity of Nazareth, who fled to Lebanon in 1948 as a child separated from his family along the way. Her husband had already died from the time we met, but her son Hassan told me with a nostalgic laugh that the couple's first meeting was “like magic.”

Hmm, Adnan gave birth to eight children, two boys and six girls, three of whom were killed in a car accident and one during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-90. The third was accidentally shot by a cousin.

Healthy turn a veiled woman, Hmm Adnan was already experiencing difficulties in walking in 2006, when my girlfriend Amelia and I appeared to her house – which, unlike many other residences by southern Lebanon, managed to avoid irreparable damage during the summer attack. Amelia and I were hitchhiker Our path through the devastated landscape and Hassan was one of the innumerable motorists who would raise us from the side of the road and drive us home to be stuffed with food and go home for the night.

I returned to Lebanon only in 2008 after taking the bus from Turkish to Syria, where Hassan voluntarily extracted me. Then I would spend the better part of two months sleeping on the floor of the Hall Hall of Adnan under the colorful portrait of her late husband. Hassan was sleeping on a mattress next to me, an arrangement that caused not as much as the watt of the eye from the mind Adnan.

At that time, Mind Adnan had even more difficult to maneuver, and yet he could rarely sit down to sit still, dedicating himself to endless spinning, gardening and cooking. Green beans VAT was always on hand for me – as well as an array of other treats – and the fact that one had to go through the kitchen to get to the only toilet in the House means that the mind Adnan has many opportunities to get me on the table for another mandatory dining session.

Hmm Adnan had a smile for everyone, her stoic grace, even more remarkable given the trajectory of her life, which involved survival in such episodes of mass slaughter as Israeli invasion of 1982 This killed tens of thousands in Lebanon. The sharp losses she has endured over the years – all against the backdrop of constant pain from the state that has turned her husband refugee – made the ordinary act of getting up every morning a fierce resilience.

Whether cooking, cleaning, singing, or uttering for one grandchild or another to rush with an order, Um Adnan embodied daily heroism that denies in the Orientalist discourse, which reduces the Arab/Muslim woman to a weak and depressed figure. It does not matter that in Lebanon and Palestine it is exactly the opposite of the weak to hold families together while fighting the constantly present existential Israeli threat.

During the brutal Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, which lasted from 1978-2000, Hassan fought with Lebanese resistance-which means that Audan's mind never knew at what point he could lose a fourth child. Now that he was home, she was holding him close.

Although he is ignited by the sleeping arrangement in his living room, Hmm Adnan welcomed Hassan's message that he and I married – part of a scheme we invented while under the influence of too much wine. According to our vision caused by the wine, Hassan's marriage to the United States-graduated state will eventually allow him to get an American passport and travel to his father's village in today's Israel.

With less than her obsessive ways and general uselessness in the kitchen, I had no doubt not intended to have daughter Adan to have foreseen for herself, but she took all this in a noble foot.

We were married by Sheikh in the village of Tibenne and I was inserted as a number one wife in the Hassan Identity Document for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a category of which he was appointed by the law of Lebanon, which banned Lebanese women as Aden's mind to pass on their citizenship to their offspring.

Needless to say, the passport scheme did not give up, but Hmm Adnan showered us with good wishes after our return from the Sheikh and promised a suitable party in the future.

Would Later, lose contact with Hassan For many years – and he was afraid of the worst – up to one day in December 2022. He materialized in my messsapp messages with a series of Emoji and “Belennnnnnnnn”. He was alive, but Hmm Adnan was not after he died during the coronavirus pandemic. His voice cracked as he said to me, “She broke my heart.”

Since then, Adnan's house has been transformed into ruins along with much of the rest of Cehabie – manual work, of course, the Israeli military, who began their last invasion of Lebanon last fall. Her family failed to save anything from the ruins, leaving only memories from the place where Adnan had loved and lost and radiating force in the face of adversity, day by day.

Today, March 8, is International Women's Day. And since Israel continues to do everything possible Make the earthly existence hell For countless international women, I think a lot about UM Adnan.

The anger expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazee's editorial position.