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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Maybe you have seen this before, but just in case you did not…
How many of them you can recognize!? (Click image to ENLARGE).
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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By Belgian Cartoonist-journalist- blogger - Benjamin Heine
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 [...]
Babar Moghal is a Pakistani Artist; a reader of my blog and like to share some of his pencil work he made for Palestine and Iraq and now Lebanon.
You can see his work at: www.artwanted.com/babarmoghal
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 [...]
Here is a cool online application. It analysis your website structure and transfer it to colors and displays them in nice graphical form.
Guess what could bring Italy, Japan, and the infamous (a.k.a. Bush) Palestinian/Israeli Roadmap, together?
It is a full-page advertising about an (expensive) car by isuzu appeared in “Il Piccolo” (newspaper from Trieste, italy), on 16 may 2006 pag 22. Can’t find trace of this image in online publishing, even at www.isuzu.it.
The advertising author/agency is Oliviero Toscani/Giorgio [...]
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. It was initially published at Global Voices!
Music…
Amal, in her latest cartoon:
“See my Wawa, kiss my Wawa.” The Wawa is the little tiny hurt “ouch”..
In this cartoon; a poor bleeding Palestinian child is begging from a wealthy Arabian man who seems not giving attention [...]
An Invitation to Palestinians Across the World [Hat tip: Amal]
Work started on the preparation of an exceptional book with a new concept “Jerusalem in exile – tangible memories” by artist Steve Sabella. The book seeks to explore the visual images of Jerusalem in the minds of Palestinians who live in the Diaspora, as well as [...]
In deviantART, the Palestinian artists simply cannot select their country from the dA country list. “Free-Palestine” community asked deviantART to add “Palestinian territories” to the country list. The answer was: “deviantART does not tolerate Mob like mentality…“. dA then banned “Free-Palestine” members, and deleted all of their content. Members are seeking your help!
They say: “If you made a bad film, you made it alone. If you made a good film, you all made it.” And that’s what “Paradise now” did. A good film by all means!
The film didn’t win the Oscar, but won more than the academy award. Won the hearts of the millions who saw [...]
This is a cross-posting. It was initially published at Global Voices in my (semi)-weekly translation post.
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere.
This week, johacom was happy to find some cartoons by Arab cartoonist that depict some Official Arab Leaders. He says:
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