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 literature (Samih Al-Qassem, Salman Natour and others He used his artistic inspiration in his works in which his writings were distinguished by telling the events. Like the artist Salman Natour’s story group “And We Have Not Forget”, which decorates the pages of Nakba events with Abdi’s sketch. (Ben Zvi, 2009, 35). Likewise, the artist’s story “Like this patience in Eilaboun”, in which the figure of a wounded person lying on the ground, a sad woman trying to touch that injured man, and a group of women behind this woman emerge. And behind that scene, the space appears empty, which gives a feeling of loneliness (Maslamani, 2011: 280-281).
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Palestinian art had an active and influential role in the march of the Palestinian struggle, as the artist was able to embody the suffering of his people in his works of art, and the artist had an important role in recording the stages of the Palestinian struggle in the form of wonderful artistic icons that he was able to preserve his identity by using elements of the Palestinian heritage to transform later. The artistic symbols used by successive generations (Balata, 2000: 64-65).
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