1940s, Lydda, Palestine

1940s, Lydda, Palestine

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Palestinian Christian woman of Lydda, Palestine 1923

Palestinian Christian woman of Lydda, Palestine1923

Spring in Palestine by Ismail Shammout of Palestine

Spring in Palestine by Ismail Shammout
http://ismail-shammout.com/

Ismail Shammout was born in 1930 in Lydda – Palestine. 

During the Nakba of 1948, he and his family were forced out of their home during the assault of Jewish Zionist militant groups on their town. 

A long march on foot allowed them to settle in the refugee camps of Khan Younis in Gaza where he lived under very harsh conditions. 

In 1950 he managed to travel to Cairo to study arts from where he later earned a scholarship to study fine arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. 

After he finished his studies, he moved to Beirut in 1959 where he married his fellow arts student from Cairo, the Palestinian artist Tamim El-Akhal (born 1935). Both lived and worked in Beirut until 1983 then moved to Kuwait, then to Germany and finally to Amman in 1994. 

Shammout died on July 3rd 2006.

Shammout, who himself experienced expulsion and refuge and accompanied later the birth of the Palestinian Revolution in the 1960s, became since the very early days of his professional live along with his partner Tamam El-Akhal the “artistic face” of the Palestinian Freedom Struggle. He has been long recognized as Palestine’s leading modernist painter. 

His experience of dispossession and the memories of beloved Palestine, the dreams of return as well as the dignity and pride of his people formed the soul of his entire art. 

The simplicity of the themes and his outstanding artistic skills let his works enjoy a widely spread popularity which significantly shaped modern Palestinian Art.  https://ismail-shammout.com/

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Gorgeous Pictures Of The Holy Land From 120 Years Ago

The Damascus Gate, built in its current form in 1537, is the main entrance to the Old City.

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A visitor to the Holy Land between 1890 and 1900 would have encountered a place that looked a lot like the pastoral setting described in the Bible and the Quran. 

A glimpse of this era is preserved through photochrom prints from the Library of Congress.

We invite you to put aside your political views (note: we've turned off comments) and enjoy these vintage pictures of "the land flowing with milk and honey."

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 http://www.businessinsider.com/palestine-in-the-19th-century-pictures-2013-10?op=1#ixzz2nGB2kPsZ

This print, called the Route To The Station, may show a road leading to the first railroad station, built in 1892.

Capernaum, a fishing village that was home to several Apostles

the Temple of the Sun in Baalbek

The ruins of an ancient colonnade in Samaria

The birthplace of Mary Magdalene in Magdala.

The Tomb of Lazarus in Bethany

Relaxing outside Lydda

Making Bread

A fisherman's boat on the Sea of Galilee by Tiberias

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New York Times: Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal by Yousef Munayyer

Palestine's Lydda in 1920 with St. George's Church in the background

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/opinion/not-all-israeli-citizens-are-equal.html?_r=1

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

By YOUSEF MUNAYYER

Published: May 23, 2012

I’M a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away in Massachusetts, where we attended neighboring colleges.

A series of walls, checkpoints, settlements and soldiers fill the 30-mile gap between our hometowns, making it more likely for us to have met on the other side of the planet than in our own backyard....READ MORE