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Symbolism plays an important role in culinary literature. In one of the stories we read in History of Arab Food, the men gathered to play chess in Baghdad symbolized sophistication, high social class, and culture. Symbolism is not only used in stories, but also in poetry and music. Many religions paint olives to symbolize peace, unity, and harmony such as Islam and Christianity, but there have also been many poets that draw attention to another side of the olive tree. For instance, a poet by the name of Mahmoud Darvish, who was a Palestine resistance advocate wrote a collection called “Olive Leaf” which goes as follows:

If olive tree knew his creator

The olive would become blood

Olive will stay ever green

Like a shield for the universe (Darvish, Olive Leaf: 41)

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