Expressions of Nakba

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation's art exhibit opened this week in DC, showcasing artists of various mediums interpreting the experience of Palestinian exile and displacement that has burned for sixty years.

Detroit artist Invincible's song "People Not Places" won best recorded audio entry; from the chorus:

"my Ima misses people not places
has she seen the towns with names in Arabic the Hebrew replaces?
The policies are evil and racist, deceitful and heinous
You’ll never be a peaceful state with legal displacement"

Listen to the song and the other finalists for recorded audio including Dearborn's Big A and ZHAO-SKI.

The Visual Arts exhibit includes photos by San Francisco's Umayyah Cable; this one entitled "Forbidden Jersualem".