On January 31st the Palestinian artist Abed Abdi came to meet the children at school. Abed Abdi is a Palestinian painter, graphic designer, sculptor and lecturer of the arts, who currently works and lives in Haifa. He often meets students all around the country, always bringing a series of his works with him and creating this...Continue Reading

 by Taleb Haj Abed Abdi is celebrating 50 years of artistic work this year, and is holding a special retrospective exhibition covering much of his art at the Um El Fahem Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog (in Hebrew, Arabic and English) that summarizes Abdi’s work.  On this special occasion, therefore, I ...Continue Reading

Curator: Dr.Tal Ben Zvi Um El Fahem Gallery (Israel)Opening: 22 May 2010Opening remarks: Poet Samīħ al-Qāsim, Mr. Yona Lahav (Lord Mayor of Haifa) and Sheikh Khaled Hamdan (Lord Mayor of Um El Fahem)   The exhibition comprises illustrations, stone prints, and lithographs published over fifty years, from the 1960s to the present day. There is...Continue Reading

سهيل كيوان الثلاثاء, 06 حزيران 2006 افتتح مساء السبت الأخير معرض رسم للفنان عبد عابدي في قاعة العرض التابعة للبلدية في مدينة طمرة، وهو حصاد 45 عاما من الإبداع كما يقول البروفيسور أفنر جلعادي، وذلك.Continue Reading

I have been asked again and again, why we made the monument to the “Land Day” at Sakhneen. In ancient times, people piled up cairns as monuments to preserve a site or to drive away evil spirits… And surely only evil spirits could force peasantry to leave their land, and only evil spirits could disturb...Continue Reading

The peoples of the world have created, on their creative path of civilization, expressions for their conceptions of thought, in the form of symbols and rituals which were clearly expressed by the erection of temples, places of worship, obelisques and stone monuments. In the wake of the march of humanity, and in the course of...Continue Reading