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...Continue Reading

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...Continue Reading

Dear audience, I am delighted to join artist Awkshi in opening the exhibition of our artist Abed Abdi, because several years ago, we used to look at Abed lying on the ground, doodling like a child, making what he called “drawings.”But today, we look up to Abed Abdi — a painter forging his path in...Continue Reading

In the presence of a large audience of painters, artists, intellectuals, and writers, painter A. Awkshi and poet Issam Abbasi inaugurated the art exhibition of painter Abed Abdi last Saturday morning at Beit HaKarma in Haifa.On behalf of the Arab-Jewish Cultural Center – Beit HaKarma, the head of the art department, painter Feuerstein, gave a...Continue Reading