Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa1985Artists: Raian, Khalil  |  Kna’an, Ahmed  |  Abdi, Abed  |  Continue Reading

Conducted by the artist Karim DabbahPublished in Al-Tali’a Newspaper, June 22, 1978 I was born in Haifa in 1942, where I completed my elementary and secondary education. In 1964, I traveled to East Germany to study art and enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1971, I received a master’s degree in mural...Continue Reading

Published by Yehoshua Sobol — the well-known Hebrew playwright, whom we recently came to know through Al-Ittihad newspaper for his socially themed play “Kriza.”This article appeared in the newspaper “Al Hamishmar” on 11 April 1977, and we are publishing it here in full. In the nineteenth century, they would have begun a case like this...Continue Reading

Art is a weapon used by the people in their intellectual and practical struggle to achieve their denied rights. Naturally, this art must be purposeful, organized, clear, and expressive—emerging from the ongoing conflict between the exploiting and the exploited forces. Within it lie the distinct characteristics of committed visual art that serves the struggles of...Continue Reading

Dear audience, I am delighted to join artist Awkshi in opening the exhibition of our artist Abed Abdi, because several years ago, we used to look at Abed lying on the ground, doodling like a child, making what he called “drawings.”But today, we look up to Abed Abdi — a painter forging his path in...Continue Reading

In the presence of a large audience of painters, artists, intellectuals, and writers, painter A. Awkshi and poet Issam Abbasi inaugurated the art exhibition of painter Abed Abdi last Saturday morning at Beit HaKarma in Haifa.On behalf of the Arab-Jewish Cultural Center – Beit HaKarma, the head of the art department, painter Feuerstein, gave a...Continue Reading