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Abed Abdi's Online Art Archive

Haifa Old City Walking Tour No.2: Haifa Personal Heritage Tour – Art, Memory & the Palestinian Story

The Time That Remains — A Personal Journey Through Haifa’s Past and Present Discover Haifa through an intimate, deeply personal lens. This unique walking tour traces the city’s history through art, memory, and the lived experience of three generations of one Palestinian family — my own. Through stories rooted in life before and after the...
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Haifa Old City Art Walking Tour No.1: Conflict, Coexistence & Hidden Stories

Back to the Future: HaifaA Journey Through 100 Years of Conflict, Coexistence, and Shared Stories Route curated by local heritage specialists Dr. Eilat Maoz & Attila Abdi Experience Haifa like never before. This guided walk invites you into the city’s layered past — a place where Palestinian and Jewish communities have lived, struggled, collaborated, and shaped one...
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Group Exhibition: The Lost Paintings (Canada)

The Lost Paintings, a Prelude to Return is an imagined recreation of the last exhibition held in Palestine by Palestinian-Lebanese artist Maroun Tomb, which opened on November 29, 1947 in Haifa.  The 1947 opening coincided with the very day in which the UN approved the Partition Plan of Palestine, igniting the war and events that...
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Explore Over Five Decades of Public Art: The Abed Abdi Interactive Map

We are proud to present the Abed Abdi Public Art Interactive Map, a unique and growing digital archive that traces more than five decades of artistic contributions to public space. Spanning the years 1969 to 2025, these works include mosaics, reliefs, sculptures, monuments, and site-specific installations that engage deeply with history, community, and place. From...
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Art from Heartache

Oasis Art Gallery The heartache of the war multiplies each day as the deaths pile up, as our leaders sup at laden tables and take their time to come to a ceasefire agreement, as hopes are tempered by the sheer waste and bloodshed. The eight Palestinian and Jewish artists whose work is currently exhibit in...
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From 1962 to Today: Milestones in the Press and The Media Legacy of Abed Abdi

Explore the Abed Abdi Media & Press Archive – 600+ Articles, Interviews & Reviews The newly opened Abed Abdi Art Library is now live online, offering a structured and multilingual archive that traces over six decades of artistic activity, social commentary, and cultural legacy of the Palestinian artist Abed Abdi. This expansive collection contains more...
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The Abed Abdi Digital Library Now Online – A Multilingual Archive Spanning Six Decades

The newly launched Abed Abdi Art Library is now available online, offering a rich and structured digital archive that documents over 60 years of creativity, social commentary, and cultural engagement by Palestinian artist Abed Abdi. This dynamic library features more than 600 published materials—including articles, interviews, critical essays, exhibition catalog texts, and press clippings—spanning from...
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Group exhibition: “Heartache | מועקה وجَع”

We believe that this damned war must stop now. You’re invited to the exhibition “Heartache | מועקה وجَع” Opening: 4 July 2025, 15:30–18:30 Oasis Art Gallery, Wahat al-Salam – Neve Shalom Featuring works by 9 artists, curated by Dyana Shaloufi Rizek. The exhibition will remain open until September – visits by prior coordination.
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Abed Abdi in “The Holocaust and the Nakba”

In the groundbreaking volume The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, Tal Ben-Zvi’s chapter “Culture of Memory: Holocaust and Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi” explores how the visual works of Abed Abdi and Lea Grundig open a rare dialogue between two foundational traumas: the...
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Poetry and painting: The Arab visual artists who found inspiration through the timeless literature of Mahmoud Darwish

n honour of Mahmoud Darwish’s 84th birthday, we examine how the Palestinian wordsmith continues to inspire creativity in the region, even after his death Culture Rawaa Talass 12 March, 2025 March 13 marks the 84th birth anniversary of one of the Arab world’s most influential literary voices: Mahmoud Darwish. Born in 1941 and raised in...
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Auction: Middle East Modern Art / Paris
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