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...Continue Reading

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...Continue Reading

Artist Abd Abdi He came to the fore with his representation of the Nakba and Asylum events in his works of art, and between 1972 and 1982 many drawings were published for him in the Arab press, where he worked as an Arabic graphic editor for the Communist Party newspaper, The artist accompanied the resistance...Continue Reading

Lucy Gellman | May 17th, 2021 Art Council of Greater New Haven Excerpt from Article covering Palestine Cultural Week at the Palestine Museum USA: Abed Abdi and Gershon Knispel’s Memorial Sarcophagus for the Six Martyrs To The Day of The Land rises from the ground in aluminum and grey cement, heavy from the moment a viewer...Continue Reading

Abed Abdi was born in Palestine in 1942. At the age of six he became a refugee, wandering from one refugee camp to another between Lebanon and Syria.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