Tag: Nakba
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01 Work, The Art of War, Abed Abdi’s Expulsion from the Homeland, with footnotes
Sold for 10,625 GBP in April 2019 The Nakba (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) in 1948 was a defining moment in Palestinian history that affected the life, culture and identity of the Palestinian people in immeasurable ways, and concurrently, the evolution of Palestinian art. Palestinian art was still in its early stages of development in the mid-1900s as…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Samir Rafi’s The 1948 Nakba, with Footnotes, #52
The 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba, literally “disaster”, “catastrophe”, or “cataclysm”), occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs — about half of prewar Palestine’s Arab population — fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war. Between 400 and 600 Palestinian villages were sacked during the war, while urban…
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