Drawing the Kafr Qasem massacre
By: by Samia Halaby ; foreword by Raja Shehadeh ; historical perspective by Salman Abu Sitta
Contributors: Abu-Sitta, Salman H., writer of added text
Publisher: Mets en Schilt Uitgevers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789053308745
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Atrocities; Arab-Israeli conflict; Pictorial works; History
Work titles: Works
Description: The massacre that took place on 29th October 1956 in Kafr Qasem was not the only massacre Palestinians have experienced in their long and painful history. After the massacre, Kafr Qasem was subjected to military cordon and media prohibition, which imposed debilitating isolation after the massacre. No one was allowed in or out of the village and a tight gag order was placed on the news. 22 days after the massacre, news finally reached the world. As a visual artist, Samia Halaby always set herself high standards. Her credo is that she wanted through her art to 'support the ambition of Palestinian liberation'. The evocative drawings in this book document the atrocities of Kafr Qasem. To capture these events on paper she gathered data in every form possible: oral testimonials, photographs, media reports, anything she could lay her hands on.