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“As an artist, the city of Jerusalem captivates me with its beauty from its amazing landmarks to its beautiful hills and valleys filled with olive and orange trees… I consider my paintings as visual poems, poems of hope, poems of love and poems that capture expression and human emotions.”
Natural stone is the most requested Palestinian raw material, considered white oil. The natural stone’s extraction system causes environmental, social, and health problems within villages, refugee camps and cities. The Israeli occupation responds with persecution of Palestinian complaints, whose voices are unanswered by international organizations and ignored by the Palestinian authorities.
On May 31, 2010 while still in international waters, Israeli commandos killed nine people who were traveling on a humanitarian mission on the Mavi Mamara. Traveling together with them, 700 activists from Caracas to Valencia, Barcelona, Brussels, London, Stockholm, and Istanbul attempted to bring supplies and break the blockade that the Palestinian population of Gaza has been suffering for years.
What happens if all the posters that libraries and museums have historically cataloged under different headings such as Holy Land, State of Palestine, State of Israel, Eretz Israel, Promised Land, and Land of the Bible were organized under a single library heading, the Palestine poster?
Glass artist Corinne Whitlatch presents glass wall sculptures that reflect her travels in Palestine and the Middle East, and her thoughts on the peace these lands seek.
Experience Bud Hensgen’s 2011 tour of Palestine, culminating in a series of 14 paintings that reflect his impressions on the injustice he found there.
A stimulating interview with Palestinian-American film director, Annemarie Jacir, who just screened her latest work “Lamma Shoftak” (When I Saw You) at the DC International Film festival.
While I was in Paris making friends for The Gallery at the Institut du Monde Arabe and several private galleries, I visited the spectacular, if controversial, new Islamic Wing at the Louvre.
A three-part documentary, the film “Route 181” follows the borders drawn up by UN Resolution 181 which was adopted by the UN on 29 November 1947 to separate Palestine into two states – one Jewish and one Arab. 56 percent of the territory was attributed to the Jewish minority while 43 percent was given to the Arab majority, with a small central area given over to international supervision. Fifty-five years later, the journey of these two filmmakers along Route 181 traces a border which never actually existed.
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