The Palestinian Museum permanent collection

No More School After Today

A poster entitled 'No More School After Today' issued by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) between 1980-85. The poster shows a photo of two Palestinian children's corpses which were found under the rubble. On it in English is written 'No more school for some Palestine refugee children ever. But UNRWA schools are working to help the luckier ones.'

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Sultan bin Fahad works with painting and sculpture. A self-taught artist, bin Fahad’s imposing abstract paintings are made with thick strokes of paint, sand, pearl, mica flakes, and powdered glass. Inspired by spirituality as well as the material culture of Mecca in his native Saudi Arabia, this line of inquiry has inspired bin Fahad to imagine his own language for a contemporary yet critical Islamic art. Themes central to his artistic practice revolve around repetition, sound and movement, using symbols that derive from Islam: the five daily prayers, Hajj (pilgrimage) and the Kaaba.

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Vera Tamari is an artist, curator, contemporary art historian, and educator. Nature and the rich and complex lived history of Palestine are dominant themes in her multidisciplinary artistic practice. Tamari’s works come from the perspective of her personal encounters with the landscape of Palestine, one that is both filled with awe at the complexity of the land, its ancient olive trees, cacti and rolling hills, but also the brutal occupation of it.