Samia Halaby is a leading abstract painter and an influential scholar of Palestinian art. Although based in the United States since 1951, Halaby is recognised as a pioneer of contemporary abstraction in the Arab world.
Killed:
Abdallah Muhammad Sarsour (14 years old), Safa’s younger boy riding the truck with her
Amina Qasem Taha (50 years old)
Bakriyya Mahmoud Taha (14 years old)
Fatma Dahoud Sarsour (30 years old)
Fatma Mustafa Easa (18 years old)
Fatma Mahmoud Bdier (40 years old)
Fatma Saleh Sarsour (14 years old)...
Killed:
Abdallah Muhammad Sarsour (14 years old), Safa’s younger boy riding the truck with her
Amina Qasem Taha (50 years old)
Bakriyya Mahmoud Taha (14 years old)
Fatma Dahoud Sarsour (30 years old)
Fatma Mustafa Easa (18 years old)
Fatma Mahmoud Bdier (40 years old)
Fatma Saleh Sarsour (14 years old)...
Killed:
Mahmoud Khader Sarsour (27 years old)
Yousef Muhammad Sarsour (52 years old)
• Drawing number D2153
Mahmoud and his uncle Yousef Sarsour were returning home in a truck loaded with cement blocks. They were unaware of the curfew but knew well the cruelties of military rule. They were stopped by soldiers...
• Drawing number D2151
When Israeli soldiers showered bullets on the workers of the Seventh Wave, many fell to the ground desperately seeking shelter. Some tried to hide under the truck itself. Abu Ayyoub managed to squeeze his young body over the spare wheel under the truck. He told of how in due time all those under the truck...
Killed:
Abed Saleem Freij (16 years old)
Abdal-Raheem Muhammad Bdier (25 years old)
Ahmad Muhammad Amer (17 years old)
Ata Yacoub Sarsour (26 years old)
Jamal Saleem Taha (11 years old)
Jum’a Muhammad Sarsour (17 years old), Safa’s older boy.
Jum’a Tawfiq Easa (18 years old)
Mousa Thiyab Freij (21...
Killed:
Abdallah Abdal-Ghafer Bdier (16 years old)
Abed Saleem Easa (29 years old)
Ali Nimer Freij (17 years old)
Mahmoud Abdal-Razeq Sarsour (16 years old)
Saleem Ahmad Bdier (51 years old)
Saleh Muhammad Amer (40 years old)
Wounded:
Abdal-Rahman Yacoub Sarsour (16 years old)
As’ad Saleem...
Killed:
Mahmoud Abdal-Ghafer Rayyan (35 years old)
Escaped:
Mustafa Umar Odeh
Mustafa Abdal-Qader Sarsour known as Abu Thiyab
Jum’a Rasheed Bdier
Saleh Ahmad Sarsour
Mustafa Abdal-Qader Sarsour
• Drawing number D2149
Of the 43 men, women, and children who would die at the western...
• Drawing number D2148
A jeep full of Israeli soldiers was chasing the truck of the Fourth Wave. Suddenly, just after Saleh Amer, who had tried to get onto the moving truck was shot dead, old man Abu Mousa ran into the path of the jeep yelling, “Where are my sons? Where are my sons?” By doing so he had risked his life and...
Killed:
Saleh Mahmoud Amer (40 years old)
Escaped:
The truck driver, Abdallah Easa, and 26 passengers among them:
Muhammad Khamees Amer known as Abu Butros, and
Mohamed Dahoud Rabi known as Abu Sameeh,
• Drawing number D2147
The truck of the Fourth Wave was stopped at the side of the road by...
• Drawing number D2146
Uthman Easa, having heard of the curfew, went out to bring back his 12 year old son, Fathi, who was pasturing a herd of black goats. On the way back, soldiers attacked them. Uthman was driving the large herd from the rear when suddenly the goats reversed direction and stampeded toward him. In frantically trying...
Killed:
Fathi Uthman Easa (12 years old)
Uthman Abed Hamad Easa (34 years old), Fathi’s father
• Drawing number D2145
The 12 year old shepherd boy Fathi Easa was leading his family’s herd of black goats home after pasture while his father, Uthman, was shooing them from the rear. The father having learned of the...
Killed:
Muhammad Abdal-Rahman Asi known as Abu Samaha (50 years old)
Ghazi Mahmoud Darweesh Easa (20 years old)
Wounded:
Isma'eel Mahmoud Bdier
Escaped:
Mahmoud Rasheed Bdier (14 years old),
Muhammad Abdal-Raheem Easa
Radiyya Bdier (eight years old)
And three others two of which were...
• Drawing number D2143
Abdallah Bdier was shot at when bicycling home after work with his brother and two comrades in the First Wave of killing at the western entrance to the village. He immediately fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. When he first tried to crawl away, he was shot at again, and again he remained still. Later...
Killed:
Ahmad Muhammad Freij (35 years old)
Ali Uthman Taha (30 years old).
Wounded:
Mahmoud Ahmad Freij
Escaped:
Abdallah Ismeer Bdier,
• Drawing number D2142
Five minutes before the curfew and unaware of it, four quarry workers were returning home to Kafr Qasem riding their bicycles....
In the second part of the exhibition, the artist will present three recently completed acrylic paintings of her project Illuminated Space: Between Birzeit and Ramallah, To Return: Infiltrate, and Mondrian Boogie Woogie. critic Maymana Farahat sheds light on the Artist’s recent paintings & reviews them within broader frame of history of...
In the second part of the exhibition, the artist will present three recently completed acrylic paintings of her project Illuminated Space: Between Birzeit and Ramallah, To Return: Infiltrate, and Mondrian Boogie Woogie. critic Maymana Farahat sheds light on the Artist’s recent paintings & reviews them within broader frame of history...
In the second part of the exhibition, the artist will present three recently completed acrylic paintings of her project Illuminated Space: Between Birzeit and Ramallah, To Return: Infiltrate, and Mondrian Boogie Woogie. critic Maymana Farahat sheds light on the Artist’s recent paintings & reviews them within broader frame of history...