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Abed Abdi – 50 év kreativitás: A könyv!

újonnan megjelent könyv: Abed Abdi – 50 év kreativitás – retrospektíva. A könyv áttekinti Abed Abdi művészeti munkásságát és bemutatja az elmúlt ötven év legfontosabb művészeti állomásait és műalkotásait, kiváló minőségű képekkel és három nyelvre lefordított szöveggel. (Angol, Héber, Arab)  “A könyv remek lehetőséget kínál a széles közönségnek és a művészet szerelmeseinek, hogy megismerkedjenek az...
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One Tragedy Among Hundreds Of Thousands

 Historical crises always have a human face. Although we may have become numbed by the daily reports of violence from both sides of Syria’s two-year-long civil war, it is certain that more than 70,000 civilians have perished and more than 700,000 have fled the country putting intense pressure on neighboring countries, stretching the resources of...
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Arab-Israeli In Haifa Uses Art To Help Palestinian Refugee Sister

The struggle to save Lutfia, an 84 year-old Palestinian refugee, is being conducted by her brother Abed Abdi, a respected Palestinian artist who resides in Haifa.  A childhood memory documented in a photo: A little boy is holding his mother’s hand; his four siblings stand alongside them. The place is a refugee camp near Damascus....
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Abed Abdi And The Liberation Art Of Palestine

Palestinian artists of the second half of the twentieth century, when interviewed, sometimes speak of being the first to do this or that, or that theirs was the first Palestinian one-artist exhibition, etc. The trauma of the Nakba caused an absence in knowledge. Closer study reveals that, despite this perceived chasm in the continuity of...
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A Visit to Abed Abdi’s Studio: Muses from the Wadi

 In his studio Abed Abdi, a leading Palestinian artist, is showing works of local residents. He also recalled wistfully his former neighbor, Emile Habibi. The Work space of the artist Abed Abdi and his works are strongly tied to each other, and are connected to the city of Haifa where he was born and where...
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“Homage to Lutfia, my sister in Yarmouk camp”

On the occasion of the Month of Arab Culture, a solo exhibition of Abed Abdi is being held at the Arab- Jewish Cultural Center (Beit Hagefen) in Haifa. The exhibition is entitled “Homage to Lutfia, my sister in Yarmouk refugee camp”. Curator: Dr. Ayelet Zohar Opening: Saturday May 18th 19:00. Closing Saturday August 31th Art...
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“Remaining in Haifa” – A Memorial to Emile Habibi Designed by Abed Abdi

Tomorrow, Saturday just before noon, a memorial monument titled “Remaining in Haifa” will be unveiled in honor of the celebrated writer and political leader Emile Habibi, above his grave in the Anglican Cemetery in Haifa. The monument is a tall, rectangular column standing 190 centimeters high, crafted from solid African granite. Its surface is engraved...
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Al-Jadeed’s Guest: The Artist Abed Abdi – The Origin and Foundation of the Arab Visual Arts Movement in the Country

Issue No. 5 of Al-Jadeed Magazine, May 1991 When you meet the artist Abed Abdi and talk with him about his life and artistic activities, you feel as if you are meeting a long and vibrant history of artistic engagement—one that Abdi has been able to convey to us through the events and changes occurring...
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Palestinian Expression Inside a Cultural Ghetto

Kamal Boullata In: 159 (July/August 1989) During the summer of 1986,1 spent a month in the West Bank, keen to learn for myself about the effects of Israeli restrictions on Palestinian forms of expression, particularly in the visual arts and local crafts. A quick look at different cultural products indicated that traditional aesthetic values have for...
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The Orphan Plow and the Municipal Consultant: A Memorial for the Victims of Land Day

Published by Yehoshua Sobol — the well-known Hebrew playwright, whom we recently came to know through Al-Ittihad newspaper for his socially themed play “Kriza.”This article appeared in the newspaper “Al Hamishmar” on 11 April 1977, and we are publishing it here in full. In the nineteenth century, they would have begun a case like this...
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Recent Works

A Closed Horizon by Abed Abdi, showing two shadows standing before a territory enclosed by barbed wire.
A Fragile Shelter by Abed Abdi, showing a mother holding her three children inside a refugee tent amid destruction in Gaza.
A Cry Without Words by Abed Abdi, depicting a young man in a Gaza refugee camp with wide-open eyes and mouth expressing shock amid destruction.
Original acrylic painting by Abed Abdi depicting photographic negatives with the faces of people from Gaza against a background of destruction.
wounded figure with red background in Abed Abdi A Wounded Silence
Humanist art by Abed Abdi - A mother and her children hide in a fragile shelter during wartime, capturing fear, vulnerability, and resilience.

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