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Twelve Palestine Drawings / Zwölf Palästina-Zeichnungen by Anis Hamadeh
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VIA DOL |
FISHERMEN |
MONASTERY |
BETHLEHEM |
SOAP FACTORY |
COURTYARD |
MELONS |
OLIVES |
EASTER |
WATER MILL |
INTO THE SEA |
NAHR AL-BARID |
VIA DOLOROSA (DIN A3) © Anis 2007 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "The Via Dolorosa, Fifth Station of the Cross, in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, Jerusalem." |
FISHERMEN of the Sea of Galilee (DIN A3) © Anis 2007 |
MONASTERY (DIN A3) © Anis 2007 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "The Christian monastery of Mar Saba, commemorating a Byzantine ascetic of this name who died in A.D. 531. The monastery is located in the wilderness southeast of Jerusalem. Mar is the Arabic word for "saint". Many Palestinian Muslim shrines honor Hebrew prophets and Christian saints." |
HILLS OF BETHLEHEM (DIN A3) © Anis 2007 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "The hills of Bethlehem. Note the traditional headdress." |
SOAP FACTORY IN NABLUS (DIN A3) © Anis 2007 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "The ancient craft of soapmaking ... Palestinian traditional industries, particularly the production of edible oil and the manufacture of soap, were vigorous, and Palestinians were increasingly active in the tobacco, textile, wood products, cement, and paper industries." |
COURTYARD OF IBRAHIMI MOSQUE (DIN A3) © Anis 2007 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "Muslim dignitaries conferring in the courtyard of the Ibrahimi (Abraham) Mosque, Hebron, 1947. The mayor of Hebron, Shaikh Muhammad Ali al-Ja'bari, is on the right." |
MELONS (DIN A3) © Anis 2007 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "Palestinian Agricultural Production: Contrary to prevailing opinion in the Western world, the Palestinians were responsible for the bulk of agricultural production in the country during the British Mandate ... Melons: of 125.979 dunams planted with melons, the Palestinians owned and cultivated 120.304 dunams." (one dunam = one thousand square meters) |
OLIVES (DIN A3) © Anis 2008 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "Palestinian Agricultural Production: Contrary to prevailing opinion in the Western world, the Palestinians were responsible for the bulk of agricultural production in the country during the British Mandate ... Olives: of 600.133 dunams, 99 percent was Palestinian-owned and cultivated." (one dunam = one thousand square meters) |
EASTER IN JERUSALEM (DIN A3) © Anis 2008 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "Christian Orthodox procession on Easter Day (note the lighted candles) from the Greek Patriarchate to the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, ca. 1910." |
WATER MILL (on the Auja River near Jaffa) (DIN A3) © Anis 2008 |
INTO THE SEA (DIN A3) © Anis 2008 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "Palestinians driven into the sea at Jaffa Harbor, late April 1948. With the land routes cut off by the Haganah, tens of thousands of the citizens of Jaffa and neighboring villages fled by boat to Gaza and Egypt; scores were drowned. Jaffa was to have been the main port of the Palestinian state envisioned in the UN partition recommendation of 29 November 1947." |
NAHR AL-BARID (DIN A3) © Anis 2008 Subtext from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi: "A typical Palestinian refugee camp at Nahr al-Barid in northern Lebanon, winter 1948." Background: "The First Palestinian Diaspora. By 15 May 1948 hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from scores of Palestinian towns and hundreds of Palestinian villages had been scattered to the four winds in the neighboring Arab countries. On 5 June 1948 David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary: 'We must make immediate preparations for settlement of the abandoned villages with the assistance of the Jewish National Fund.'" |
„Before their Diaspora“ – Palästina-Zeichnungen, 60 Jahre danach Gedenkveranstaltungen in Deutschland und weltweit (Mainz, 01.06.2008) Olivenpflücker bei der Ernte, Melonenverkäufer, ein Kloster, die Via Dolorosa, eine Wassermühle, eine traditionelle Seifenfabrik, Fischer am See Genezareth … in glänzenden Farben strahlen die zwölf Motive der „Before their Diaspora“-Serie des Künstlers Anis Hamadeh. Die DIN A3-Zeichnungen gehen zurück auf Fotos eines reich kommentierten gleichnamigen Bildbands des palästinensischen Historikers Professor Walid Khalidi über den Alltag und die Geschichte der Palästinenser von 1876 bis 1948. |
"Before their Diaspora" – Palestine Drawings, 60 Years After Commemorations in Germany and in the World (Mainz, 1 June 2008) Harvesting olive pickers, melon sellers, a monastery, the Via Dolorosa, a water mill, a traditional soap factory, fishermen from the Sea of Galilee ... the twelve exhibits of artist Anis Hamadeh's "Before their Diaspora" series shine in glossy colors. The 42 cm x 29,5 cm drawings trace back to photos from a richly annotated illustrated book of the same title. The Palestinian historian Professor Walid Khalidi created it to document the everyday life and the history of the Palestinians from 1876 until 1948. |
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