"Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land & People"

Book Launch and Discussion
Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People

With artist Nabil Anani, Dr. Tina Sherwell
Saturday, September 15 | 17:00 – 18:30

Over the past five decades, Nabil Anani built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art, pioneering the use of local media such as leather, henna, natural dyes, papier-mâché, wood, beads and copper. Anani’s development as an artist has run in parallel with major events in recent Palestinian history. His work reflects the lived Palestinian experience, exhibiting distinctive responses to issues of exile, dislocation, conflict, memory and loss. Anani’s artistic vision restores and celebrates a denied and often-forgotten reality, his worker-igniting memory.

Bringing together more than 150 of his works, along with contributions from acclaimed Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti as well as from leading Middle Eastern art historians, Rana Anani, Lara Khaldi, Bashir Makhoul, Nada Shabout, Housni Alkhateeb Shehadeh and Tina Sherwell.

Nabil Anani: Palestine, Land and People edited by Sulieman Mleahat and Martin Mulloy (Saqi Books, August 2018) is supported by AFAC, A M Qattan Foundation, the Palestinian Museum and the Palestinian Cultural Fund.