Sabra Shatila

Creator: Dia Azzawi | 1982-1983

“Sabra Shatila was created by Azzawi in response to the 1982 massacre of civilians in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps during the Lebanese civil war. Described by Azzawi as “a manifesto of dismay and anger,” the exhibition tells the story of the massacre by combining a series of fragmented scenes that create a narrative invoking the brutality of war and human suffering. The composition displays silenced screams and outstretched hands; blood red and human and animal body parts reinforce the horror of the killings.”

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Children of Shatila (Atfal Shatila)

Creator: Mai Masri | 1998

“Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut’s “belt of misery,” the camp is home to 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese who share a common experience of displacement, unemployment and poverty. Fifty years after the exile of their grandparents from Palestine, the children of Shatila attempt to come to terms with the reality of being refugees in a camp that has survived massacre, siege and starvation.”

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From Sabra and Shatila…to Independence?

Creator: Adnan Yahya | 1999 

“The May 1999 show at Darat Al-Funun in Jordan is made up of sets of graphic works and paintings.  The images are variations on the theme of tyranny and oppression.  In one set of nineteen ink drawings, we see heaps of massacred humanity.  At each heap there is a small event which crowns the horror. For example a figure in screaming anguish, or a woman holding a baby and gesturing for help, or an old man pulling a dead youth out of the heap, or a youth pulling an old man, or two children walking away, or a face staring out of the pile at the crescent moon is the event dramatized by the background of horror.”

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