There are very few photographers who create art in the way that Ezz Al Zanoon does. His photographs are astounding in both composition and vision. For me, this is an artist expressing his deepest inspiration that unfurls skywards from the rubble and dust of an apocalyptic devastation that is Gaza. Every photograph inspires me to write…
“Palestine was an innocent child bride sold into marriage by its adopted family and then abused, violated, beaten and raped by an enforced husband who invaded her body and took what is precious to her and left her to slowly bleed to death in a room without light or hope. We as her family are…
When pain paralyses your heart and grief tears at your soul you scream to God for the power to turn back time. You wish it could have been you who was taken, not your child. Not the child you brought into this world with the wish that their lives could be better than yours, the…
Every child in Gaza has a story to tell. Through the cracks in the walls they see the world as a prism of fear and grief. They clamber through the jagged entrails of their homes. They watch the skies for death. They write the names of their dead friends in the dust. They are alive…
What is astounding is the alacrity with which the Obama Government dismiss all diplomatic solutions in favour of military intervention as far as certain strategic sovereign nations are concerned ~ Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, Afghanistan to name a few. Yet they are more than capable of sustaining the diplomatic process with Israel despite Israel’s daily…
I dithered over posting this (on facebook) as I will probably lose “friends” over it…but enough is enough. Assad stands against the US NATO and the whole Axis of Interventionism Assad has steadfastly resisted Zionism and supported the Palestinian cause, one of the few Arab nations to remain loyal despite not always being appreciated for…
Each day I would like to feature one Photographer from Gaza. Today Yousef Deeb http://https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yousef-deeb-photography/348308755288507?fref=photo These photographers do not simply take photos, they create art out of the devastation and suffering in Gaza. “Art is the light that shines through the wound”
“Today is the 32nd anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre was commemorated by people of different nationalities around the world. In Lebanon the commemoration was only observed by Palestinians living in refugee camps; Lebanese people were not concerned. The massacre carried out by the Phalange, a Christian Maronite militia acting in full cooperation with Israel,…
“I would like to begin by speaking about the people of Gaza. Their suffering is not an abstraction to me. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I spent seven years in the region. I speak Arabic. And for much of that time I was in Gaza, including when Israeli…
“In peace, sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature and fathers bury sons.” Photo: Gaza: Palestinians carry the body of 3-year-old Mohammed Mnassrah during his funeral in the Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 10, 2014. Mohammed was killed alongside his parents and one year old brother in his family…
The Wall Will Fall 