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Reflect and resist

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!From theatre in a Bethlehem refugee camp to the Venice biennale, Palestinians are making art out of adversity - and doing it with grace, finds Ahdaf Soueif, organiser of [...]

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Gaza Over & Over..

Hover your mouse over the presentation and view in FULLSCREEN!

This 70 pages document try to summarize Israel military aggression into Gaza Strip (December 2008 - February 2009). It contains photos, data, report and artworks related to the war. More then 30 artist involved and more then 40 artworks featured. This is the third project done [...]

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Portrait by Ben Heine

My dearest friend, Ben Heine drawn this portrait. I can't thank him enough for all what he is doing as a pro-Palestine activist. His cartoons and artwork always added to the context of my posts.

Ben is a Belgian political cartoonist, caricaturist and painter born in June 12, 1983, in Abidjan, Ivory coast. He studied Art [...]

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'Art Attack': meet the new creative dissenters for Palestine

Artist Peter Kennard meets members of a new generation of artistic dissenters in a movement spearheaded by artist Banksy, whose art has featured in Occupied Palestine as well as his native UK.
Art attack
by Peter Kennard | New Statesman | 17 January 2008 (cross-posted at peoplesgeography.com)
Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him is an increasingly [...]

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Piss On Bush!

I fell off my chair laughing and could not believe my eyes when I saw this funny picture:

Don't you just feel like doing it…. NOW
Well, this is not the first time I come across some of this "art". It actually reminds me of a Belgian one few years ago. This website report from [...]

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World's Most Famous Men/Women in a Single Photograph/Artwork

Maybe you have seen this before, but just in case you did not…
How many of them you can recognize!? (Click image to ENLARGE).

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MSLM and Muslim Chics

A while ago, the International Herald Tribune had an article about how Muslim fashion designers are getting more creative:
But young Muslim entrepreneurs around the world are making their own fashion statements, modestly, challenging the status quo in their communities as well as stereotypes outside.
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Specialty fashion houses and companies starting distinct ranges intended for fashion-conscious women [...]

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In memory of Naji Al-Ali

After 20 years of the assassination of Palestinian political cartoonist Naji Al-Ali; watch this BBC "In pictures: The work of Naji al-Ali"
And this is my collection of Naji's work:
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The Israeli occupation through artists' eyes

This is quoted from Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project:

For the last three years, community members in Olympia, WA, and Rafah, Palestine, have been working together to create a lasting, sincere partnership to better foster understanding between people who have not traditionally had a chance to get to know one another. It is our belief that by [...]

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Opera Idomeneo, Mohammed and Bikini

Although from different continent, the following two examples show just how ignorant and stupid some people can be about their knowledge of Islam.
The first one comes right from one of the capitals of Islam, Cairo. This first story shows how stupid can some Muslims be:

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Nostalgia!

By Belgian Cartoonist-journalist- blogger - Benjamin Heine

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We are all Hezbollah!

Salaam Haitham
I hope you are keeping well.
I wrote this poem a few days ago..my friend in Lebanon passed on Friday. He was helping women and children escape from Tyre. His legs were blown off and he was left in this position for many hours. He later died on the way to assistance when the Hezbollah [...]

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Coffin Counter

By Moiz Syed.

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'The Da Vinci Code' and Bahrain Traffic

It was pleasant to read a small news piece in al-Watan newspaper this morning, which states some figures about increasing numbers of visitors through King Fahd Causeway to the Kingdom of Bahrain during last June compared to the same period last month.
The newspaper report that 316,757 car carrying 625,552 passengers passed the bridge between Saudi [...]

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Sabbah in Colors!

Here is a cool online application. It analysis your website structure and transfer it to colors and displays them in nice graphical form.

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