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Against the Wall: Mahmoud Darwish
While scouting for graffiti evoking memory and loss, I found this piece by Ernest Pignon-Ernest on the separation wall: The image is particularly resonant of Nietzsche’s link between pain and...
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Kufr Birim: Memory and Space
Following from the previous post that evoked Damascus in conjunction with the poetry of Darwish, here is an equally beautiful piece that explores memory and space through the medium of music and Sufi...
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48mm, 67 yrs
Commemorating 67 years since the 1947 UN Resolution on the Partition of Palestine, Zochrot is holding the 2nd International Film Festival on the Nakba and Return in Jaffa and Tel Aviv. To be screened...
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Keys
Tomorrow I’ll be heading up to Haifa to interview Salman Natour, author of Memory Talked to Me and Walked Away (among many, many others). As I revisit his works, I am struck by the beauty, tragedy and...
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La’eb Al Nard
There are few better ways to kick off a day than with Mahmoud Darwish. Save perhaps an animated version of a his poetry set to music by Le Trio Joubran: Animated by Nissmah Roshdy, La’eb Al Nard (The...
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Gaza Font, commemoration by design
Adding to the mediums of art, performance and literature, Gaza Font presents an innovative way of practising resistance through fonts that can be used online or downloaded. Via their website a letter...
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Gaza/graffiti
And then Banksy did Gaza: At just under two minutes it’s a powerful, creative look at the many challenges facing residents of Gaza. Earlier today Japan pledged to donate $32.2 million to support...
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The art of olive harvests
The olive harvest is a trope that features heavily in Palestinian art, whether it is the triptychs of Sliman Mansour or the patchwork groves of Nabil Anani (to name but a few). Watch Tower, by Sliman...
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Hajj Jalal and the Lost Forest
Six days into my visit, I passed through the checkpoint into the West Bank, leaving behind the newly acquainted for the very familiar. Having anticipated heavy queuing at the Gilo 300 ‘terminal...
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Random Acts of Street Art, #2
Found around the Jaffa Street area: While architecture has not fallen under my previous posts on street art, Jaffa Street is an art unto itself, evoking a bygone era through its balconies, facades and...
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