Tag: Wissam al-Jazairy
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01 Work, The Art of War, Wissam al-Jazairy’s Scream, with footnotes
The Scream is a composition originally created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is Skrik, and the German title under which it was first exhibited is Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images in…
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01 Works The Art of War, Wissam Al Jazairi’s Lampedusa and Refugees, with footnotes
Lampedusa, Italy — The small harbor in Lampedusa is crowded with a fleet of dilapidated wooden and metal smuggler’s boats, some half-submerged. Discarded life jackets, filthy clothes and plastic water bottles float in the sea. Nearly 2,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean this year. Lampedusa is the closest piece of European territory to North Africa,…
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