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      <image:caption>Syria, Digital cartoon, 2022 Image description: Dark red sillhouettes of hands, heads and torsos reach up, on top of them are black bodies, and heads with arms and hands reaching up into a pale yellow background. The bodies and faces are bound and blindfolded. Black bombs of various sizes fall down toward the people.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nameer Qassim, Mothers Day, Best wishes 2023, Acrylic Brightly coloured houses of green, pink, red, purple, brown and yellow stand against a deep blue night sky filled with stars. A woman with tatreez on her clothes reaches her arm across the city.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Guardian Soil: Defiance in the Face of Displacement, 2023, Acrylic on canvas Image description: Against a light filled orange and brown desert with pyramid-like hills, a woman with a light brown face and torso stands strong. The woman is wearing a pale head scarf and her clothing has a motif of red flowers and green leaves. Her large strong hands gather to her a brown camel, a heart, a woman painting and a Keffiyeh. In the foreground is a thick strand of barbed wire with a white bird sitting on it, a bomb, a red skull and crossbones sign, and an explosion sit beneath the wire.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>THE WILL TO LIVE, 80X60 cm, Oil on canvas, 2021 Image supplied by artist Image: Against a yellow foreground is a older man with a walking stick wearing a blue coat and trousers and a Keffiyeh. he is carrying a small olive tree in a pot. Beside him is a young chid in a red hoodi and blue trousers with a spade. Against a blue sky an old olive tree with a thick yellow trunk and abundant green and brown leaves stands strong.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>2023, Meanjin Image description: This photograph shows the photographers child on her husband's shoulders. The child is waving a large Palestinian flag of red, black, white and green. They are amongst other people waving Palestinian flags at a rally on a street in Meanjin demanding an end to Israel's genocide against Palestinians, demanding ceasefire and an end to Israel's siege on Gaza and occupation of Palestine. You claim to be civilised but your hearts are solid rocks! While I sob in bed the soul of my soul wants every soul freed, The soul of my soul wants every soul to be saved, The soul of my soul wants every soul to be fed, The soul of my soul wants every soul to be found, The soul of my soul wants every soul to rejoice, The soul of my soul wants Palestine to be freed from tyrants'. - Maria S. Kahie</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sliman Mansour, Woman Carrying Jerusalem [1997] Aqueous print on archival Canson rag paper, 240 grams Edition of 75 (+AP) 54 x 39.5 cm 2022, Copyright The Artist Alt Text: A Palestinian woman is seated on a vibrant, intricately patterned rug, symbolizing the rich cultural heritage she carries with her. She holds the town of Jerusalem in a circle in her arms. Image sent in by Elif Sezen. Taken from Sliman Manour at Zawyeh Gallery. Go to gallery here.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Professor Angela Davis speaks at the Blackfella-Palestinian solidarity symposium in Magan-djin.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Self Portrait, 13 November 2023, Gaza, Palestine</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is a cross stitch piece that was designed by my late grandmother and stitched by me in 2019. Written in Arabic across the middle of the piece is the word “Palestine”. The bottom three squares cleverly fuse the traditional “Feathers” Palestinian motif with the Arabic phrase “the land”. The two motifs across the top are named the “Moon of Bethlehem”. The artist, Dalia Al-Haj Qasem, runs Sitti Threads and says: Sitti Threads is a Sydney-based social enterprise on a mission to preserve, teach and celebrate Palestinian heritage, culture and identity through the art of embroidery. With a fusion of traditional Palestinian tatreez and modern embroidery, we bring you a range of unique embroidered products that share a common thread of Palestine. As the Zionist Project continues its attempts to erase Palestinian culture and identity, Sitti Threads stands firm in asserting the rich history of Palestinian embroidery that has origins dating back to the eleventh century CE. Sitti Threads celebrates this history and embraces traditional and modern embroidery techniques to create contemporary products celebrating Palestine. It is our belief that learning the art and history of tatreez and wearing tatreez is, in and of itself, a statement of resistance. Our social enterprise encourages Palestinians and non-Palestinians alike to resist against the erasure of Palestinian identity by learning and celebrating a centuries-old art-form, tatreez. The word sitti means grandmother in Arabic. At Sitti Threads, we pay homage to the Palestinian grandmothers who have passed down the art of tatreez from one generation to the next. For me, my grandmother is a huge inspiration in my passion for embroidery. She passed away on 1 January 2023, Allah yerhamha. Despite her old age and persistent hand tremor, my grandmother would continue to celebrate her Palestinian heritage every day by handcrafting some of the most beautiful embroidery pieces. Sitti Threads is for my own Sitto and all Palestinian grandmothers and mothers who share with them a piece of Palestine every day.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image: Palestinian flag overlays a fence and bulldozer.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, 2023 6th anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Rememberance Day, 25 of August 2023. Forcibly displaced Rohingyas in Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camps remember and demand 'STOP genocide in Myanmar'.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, 2023 October 21 2023 #Rohingya refugees come together waving the #Palestinian flag for a prayer event in Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp, Bangladesh. Solidarity to stop genocide on Palestinians because genocide survivors understand the pain of genocide.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image description: An Oud lies on an Arabic rug woven with reds, oranges, blues, greens and whites. Poem and image taken from Red Room Poetry redroompoetry.org Project: Poetry Object 2020 Image Red Room Poetry We thanks Sara M. Saleh for permission to republish this poem</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>STOP THE BOMBING OF GAZA - CEASEFIRE NOW: 11 November 2023 Whadjuk-Noongar Country Image: A child with large brown eyes looks directly at the viewer. A red hand print covers one side of her face.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>all the ways to kill the morning glory it's been there now for 12 years flowering in a paintbox made of mauves and frank purple little white clit singing come and get me to the bees the football hooligan of the neighbourhood weighing heavily on fences smotherer of saplings herbs vines you want for fruit and everybody hates you for letting this little terrorist in worried it will cross their border overwhelm the gardenia cover the phlox with those heart-shaped horrors hungry to find the sun running marathons up paths look it's so pretty you were delighted on that first sight i'm imagining my mouth set at twenty to seven and the eleven between my eyes gave you pause picking the sticky thing to push behind one ear it was something I've never done so many shades and I'll give it that this year is different my year of success I stopped with the round-up and the pesticides a decade ago it was leaving notes on the kitchen table asking for more the science was coming out too on poisons I moved to clipping it untwisting and slicing it was the telephone wiring of the plant world a party line they were all in on killing it with fire is in my arsenal that's been my problem to be frank all one way no off switch all and/or nothing have my cake you know the cliches so in the interests of avoiding the penitentiary it seemed this year maybe I might smother the thing to death me Christo of suburbia wrap it in old sheets and drop cloths literally suffocate it I mean it's a kind of equation if i got my high school biology right admittedly there was lots of filling pencil cases with gas from the bunsen burners but if it has no light the fucker dies right</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Margaret Mayhew: Al Huriya (acrylic yarn) I chose this poem [Pregnant by Candy Royalle] because it reminds me of sumud; the quality of steadfastness that is needed to maintain hope amidst despair. The horrors of the israelI attacks on gaza, the horrors of the invasion of Palestine, chafe against the forces of hope and love that I see on the streets when tens of thousands of people gather in protest. I have spent countless hours to create an object on unceded WurundjerI land to gather words and hope together. By crocheting the text of ‘Al Huriya’ or freedom in arabic script into a Palestinian flag, it reminds people of the strength and beauty of feminised craft and maternal care.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Artist holds the original drawing worked into the above art work. In recent times, adapting to the challenging conditions in Gaza, my homeland, has been extremely difficult. The losses of precious lives have been heart-wrenching, yet I believe that Gaza will remain beautiful amidst the ashes and smoke. It's a place filled with cherished memories and loved ones. Despite the hardships, I have faith that Gaza will endure and eventually thrive. As a daughter of Gaza, I carry it in my heart, and it symbolizes strength and resilience.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Our Souls Redeemed for the Land of Palestine, 2022, 70X50 cm, Acrylic. Image supplied by artist. هذا العمل بعنوان أرواحنا فداء أرض فلسطين أكريليك حجم العمل 70x50 يتحدث عن عداد الشهداء الذين فدوا لروحهم فداء للفلسطيني كمْ تحمل هذا شعب مناضل هذا الاحتلال الذي استمر بتدميرهم كل هذا الوقت ربنا ينصر أهلنا في فلسطين This work speaks about the number of martyrs who sacrificed their souls for the Palestinians. How much this struggling people has endured with this occupation that has continued to destroy them all this time. May God grant victory to our people in Palestine.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Behind barbed wire a large pale yellow and dusty Teddy bear with a Palestinian flag, a dusty doll with red hair, a smaller dusty bear with pale pink ears and another yellow dusty teddy bear sit in a row amongst grey rubble. Behind them is a Keffiyeh soaked in red. In front of them sit a pair of pink sandals amongst the rubble.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On top of a black and white Keffiyeh soaked in red sits a fleshy coloured substance - bread (?)- splashed with red liquid - blood (?). On top of these 3 strands of silver barbed wire.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On top of a black and white Keffiyeh soaked in red a close up of a sliver of fleshy coloured substance - bread (?)- splattered with red liquid - blood (?). On top of these 2 strands of silver barbed wire.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On the left upper corner of a black and white Keffiyeh soaked in red three triangles of blood soaked bread splattered with red - blood (?). On top of these lay 5 smaller pieces of barbed wire.</image:caption>
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