We affirm that our land and people are one, indivisible watan (homeland and peoplehood).
We aim to abolish Zionism’s systemic regime of rightlessness, dispossession, military occupation, apartheid, siege, war, and gendered and sexual violence that has been ongoing since before the 1948 Nakba. We resist erasure, subjugation, and fragmentation through the restoration of lost land, time, peoplehood, and cultures. We are committed to the reunion of our people, communities, and homeland, from the Northern Galilee to the southernmost tip of al-Naqab, from the Mediterranean coastal lands, to the sacred city of Jerusalem, to the terrain west of the Jordan River. Across historic Palestine, throughout the shatat, and through our intergenerational connections, diverse and rich traditions, histories, and organizing practices, we affirm that we are one people.
by Dalia Ali
Dalia Ali is a Jordan-based Palestinian visual artist. She received a Bachelor of Science in Art and Design and a Master of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, in Boston, USA. Her passion for art started at an early stage and her years in Boston exposed her to the work of many international artists. Dalia has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Amman, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Virginia and Connecticut. Her work can be found in many private collections worldwide.
This painting is part of the collection “Once Upon a Time: Lifta,” which consists of paintings of displaced villages of Palestine. Dalia says that she painted Lifta as it is now, a green hill in spring, with the remains of the houses of evicted Palestinian families. She also included, as collage, old images of Lifta from 1898 and of Palestinians as they were evicted from their homes in 1948, as well as quotes from Ibrahim Nasrallah’s novel Shadows of the Keys expressing feelings of the Palestinians who couldn’t return to their villages in 1948. This way as the viewer looks at the details, he sees the continuous dialogue between present and past.
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