Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 39)
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- Democratic Palestine : 6 (ص 39)
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== Suleiman Mansour
Zuhdi Hammoude El-Adawi - Ashkelon Zionist Prison
The International Committee for Sabra and Shatila (ICSS)
has recently produced a series of 18 postcards showing works
of different Palestinian artists. The artists who have contri-
buted to this series live and produce under different cir-
cumstances, a fact reflected in their works.
- Zuhdi Hammoude El-Adawi is a prisoner in the Zionist
prison Askelon. In DP 3 we carried an article about the recent
hunger strike in the Askelon prison. The demands of the pris-
oners described the horrible conditions the Palestinian prison-
_ ers were exposed to. El Adawi paints all his pictures on hand-
kerchieves which are later smuggled out of the prison. Kamal
Moghani and Suleiman Mansour live in occupied Palestine. In
DP 5 we carried an article about the works and conditions of
working for Suleiman Mansour. These conditions are inno way
better than the conditions for the other Palestinian artists living
in occupied Palestine. It is the Zionist cultural policy to strangle
and crush Palestinian art and culture; freedom of expression is
not only non-existent, but also are artists persecuted and even
imprisoned for producing art. Other painters as Emad Abdul
Wahab were exiled first from Palestine, later from Lebanon. In
other cases the paintings carry no artist's signature, a security
measure needed for some artists underground or in exile. The
artists in prison, under occupation, in exile or underground pro-
duce art reflecting this situation, also the only ‘choice’ of exis-
tence of the Palestinian people.The paintings are marked by
this fact, but even from the Askelon prison the paintings are
also marked by hope and determination. The flowers and trees
continue to grow in the camp and occupied Palestine, as the
struggle of liberation continues in prison, under occupation and
in exile.
The ICSS, which printed the postcards, is a PLO commit-
tee, concentrating their work on spreading Palestinian art and
culture. A spokesman from the committee told Democratic > - هو جزء من
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