A Palestinian born researcher based in Jerusalem who was moved by the nostalgia and emotion still held by many displaced Palestinians for their former homes and villages. After graduating from Al-Ahliyya University in Jordan as a Computer Engineer, he developed the idea of documenting these personal stories and the displaced Palestinian villages through a personal initiative of visual documentation and thus his 8-year ongoing project of “We Were and Still Are... Here” was launched.
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They Seek God in My House They Confiscated
They Seek God in My House They Confiscated
In this parallel universe where we currently live, during such unparalleled double standards, and at a time when Israeli occupation demolished 380 mosques and 3 churches in its ongoing genocidal campaign on Gaza in a flagrant violation of freedom of... Read More
Proceeds Go to Algerian Activists
Proceeds Go to Algerian Activists
When Jerusalem city was under Jordanian rule 66 years ago, the Algerian Al-Ittihad football team was a welcome guest to the holy city.A friendly match with the Jerusalemite Muazzafin Club team was held at Al-Mutran (St. George’s) School Stadium in a spirit of... Read More
Grandma's Palm Tree
What is that secret of the Bond between Palestinians and their Grandmothers?
The grandmother expelled from her coastal hometown north of Akka in 1948 to become a refugee in a camp in northern Syria.
Second and third generations brought up on a diet of stories told by their Teitas (grandmothers),... Read More
Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art
" We Were and Still are Here" Presentation
Jerusalem
09-12-2023
Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art
" We Were and Still are Here" Presentation
Jerusalem
09-12-2023