11.25.2008

Mapping Palestine.



Dutch graphic designer Annelys de Vet (International Academy of Arts in Palestine) worked with Palestinian artists, photographers, and designers to map "their" Palestine and create this book... offering a picture of the region that differs from the images we usually receive through the mass media. When the group gathered for a workshop in Ramallah, the artists from Gaza could only participate online because they were not allowed to travel to Ramallah.
Hassan Khader, a writer from Gaza now living in Germany, writes in the atlas that "The map is formed and deformed, joyfully or sarcastically; daily life activities are cherished as precious proofs of resilience (...) Palestine as a metaphor is much more complicated and multi-layered than the one portrayed by political rhetoric. Behind every truth there is a much deeper one...". Download the book for free here.

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