Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi Archives

Abed Abdi in “The Holocaust and the Nakba”

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...

June 23, 2025ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInScholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Poetry and painting: The Arab visual artists who found inspiration through the timeless literature of Mahmoud Darwish

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...

March 27, 2025ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInScholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

The wandering museum in the works of the artist Abed Abdi

(1) Academic studies in Germany and its influence on his art During his academic studies in the German city of Dresden, the young artist Abed Abdi was zealous and diligent in getting acquainted with all aspects of the sculpturing arts, including the baroque and neo-classical architectural arts, which are the 2 characteristic strands of architectural...

November 8, 2022ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Review of the Land Day Monument

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...

May 17, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInScholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Book: British Museum / Reflections, Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa

Included in the book: Abed Abdi’s Artwork “Refugees” A richly illustrated book of contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa drawn from the British Museum’s permanent collection Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa brings together an extraordinary collection of work from the British Museum for the first time. The contemporary art of...

February 6, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Sotheby’s / Palestinian Art in the Aftermath of War

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.

April 28, 2019ByAline KhouryInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History

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...

September 20, 2018ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Traces of the Nakba

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...

March 10, 2017ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Traces of a Red Haifa (Masters Thesis)

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...

July 30, 2016ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

Folds, Tents and Portraits

The current exhibition aims to view Abdi’s creative work from a more personal, private point of view, combined with an inquiry of his strong desire and sensitivity to material qualities which is impressively present through his work. Abed Abdi (b. 1942, Haifa) is a Palestinian-Israeli artist educated as a graphic designer in the former DDR,1...

May 21, 2013ByDr. Ayelet ZoharInReviews, Scholarly Reflections About Abed Abdi

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