Opening: 01 December 2018Closing: 28 April 2019 The dramatic change undergone by Haifa in the 1948 war still resonates in the city’s urban space, its buildings, residents, and cultural-historic climate. This exhibition seeks to present the many aspects of that fateful year. In an attempt to avoid imposing one single narrative, we sought to search...Continue Reading

A Haifa art show presents work by both Jews and Palestinians depicting the ongoing trauma of the 1948 war Naama Riba, Haaretz The festive decorations adorning Ben-Gurion Boulevard outside the Haifa City Museum stand in contrast to the deep wound at the heart of the new art exhibition within. “1948” is a display of works...Continue Reading

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