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Roger Waters – “We Shall Overcome”, Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2010

Roger Waters wrote: “Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest [...]

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Sculpture offends and ‘hurts’ poor little Israel

by Haitham Sabbah April 27, 2010

The Israeli embassy in Madrid is “hurt” and “offended!” How touching… It’s okay for Israelis to kill everyday, to spit on Christians and Muslims, to kidnap people and harvest their organs, to arrest and jail children, to use illegal weapons, to impose an illegal siege on a million and a half people in Gaza, to [...]

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Reflect and resist

by Haitham Sabbah June 14, 2009

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 the Palestine festival of literature Leaning against padded walls in a darkened room we eavesdrop on an argument: “the elite think they can get independence without [...]

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Gaza Over & Over..

by Haitham Sabbah June 2, 2009

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 [...]

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Piss On Bush!

by Haitham Sabbah January 13, 2008

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 [...]

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

by Haitham Sabbah November 26, 2007

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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In memory of Naji Al-Ali

by Haitham Sabbah July 31, 2007

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

by Haitham Sabbah May 14, 2007

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 [...]

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Opera Idomeneo, Mohammed and Bikini

by Haitham Sabbah November 1, 2006

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: (????? ???????) ???? ???? ???????? ?? ??? ????????, 01-??????-2006 [...]

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Sabbah in Colors!

by Haitham Sabbah May 29, 2006

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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Jerusalem in Exile – Tangible Memories

by Haitham Sabbah May 11, 2006

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 [...]

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The art of Racism!

by Haitham Sabbah April 27, 2006

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!

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Paradise Now, Wins!

by Haitham Sabbah March 6, 2006

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 [...]

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Israel lobbies against “Palestine” tag at Oscars

by Haitham Sabbah February 13, 2006

Israeli and U.S. diplomats and Jewish groups are lobbying organisers of next month’s Academy Awards not to present a nominated film (Paradise Now) about Palestinian bombers as coming from Palestine, an Israeli newspaper reports. While the tag remains on the academy’s Web site, the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he expected the film [...]

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Erotic Star Academy

by Haitham Sabbah January 2, 2006

I can’t describe what I saw. So, let the pictures talk: Update! Welcome to Slut Star Academy 3! I won’t be surprised if next time I see them having group sex LIVE on TV. That would be interesting “lesson” to watch their teachers instructing them and make sure that the STARS are following safety instructions, [...]

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