"May God Bless the Hand that Works": Stories from Displaced Syrian Farmworkers during Covid-19

Fadwa’s husband sits nearby
sorting olives with a group
of men,
who smoke
cigarettes
and chat as
they work.
Sometimes, Fadwa is able to do the sorting with a metal sieve.
The tool
makes the job
go much faster.
Another woman pours
the olives onto the sieve,
and Fadwa guides the
leaves and sticks through
the cracks.
All bagged up
& ready to go!
The good olives fall down onto a tarp and then are put into burlap
sacks to be loaded onto a truck.