Edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. Foreword by Elias Khoury. Afterword by Jacqueline Rose. Columbia University Press, Pub Date: November 2018 In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often...Continue Reading

In the painting “Father on the Background of Displacement from Haifa April 22nd, 1948” Abed Abdi reconstructs through his and his family’s personal experience the traumatic historical event of the Palestinian people: The Nakba. In 1948, Abdi who was born and lives in Haifa, was uprooted with his mother to Lebanon, where they spent four...Continue Reading

curator, Efrat LivnyMinus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv2 June – 29 July , 2017 Online exhibition catalog: Minus 1 Gallery participating artists, Abed Abdi, Farid Abu Shakra, Ron Amir [and 25 others] 2 June, 2017 – 26 August, 2017Artists: Abu Shakra, Farid  |  Geva, Tsibi  |  Berest, Deganit  |  Ben David, Arnon  |  Ashkar, Anisa  |...Continue Reading

Penny Johnson Raja Shehadeh Jerusalem Quarterly Issue 80 – Winter 2019 Review of Exhibition: “1948,” Haifa City Museum, 4 December 2018–28 April 2019. On Ben Gurion Street in Haifa’s Germany Colony, banners flutter in the wind. Emblazoned on them is simply a date: 1948. The Haifa City Museum – an official municipal museum – was...Continue Reading

A study on the visual culture of Palestinian / Israeli society through cartoons and illustrations by the Palestinian artist Abed Abdi (1972-1982) Masters Thesis by Figueiredo, Carolina Ferreira de Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas This work aims to analyze the visual culture presented in Israel and Palestine...Continue Reading

Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery, Umm al-Fahm13 September, 2014 – 13 December, 2014Artists: Ayal, Avishay  |  Gersht, Ori  |  Baruch, Ilan  |  Rimmer, Itzu  |  Beglikter, Etamar  |  Diner, Eliahu  |  Shamir, Elie  |  Levac, Alex  |  Azi, Asad  |  Bokobza, Eliahou Eric  |  Elron, Baruch  |  Bergel, Giyora  |  Adika, David  |  Bahar Prachiya, David ...Continue Reading